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Four Quartets (1943)
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Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.
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In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.
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The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled.
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We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
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In the uncertain hour before the morning Near the ending of interminable night At the recurrent end of the unending After the dark dove with the flickering tongue Had passed below the horizon of his homing.
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Words strain,
Crack and sometimes break, under the burden,
Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,
Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place,
Will not stay still.
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Music heard so deeply
That it is not heard at all, but you are the music
While the music lasts.
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The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
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Who then devised the torment? Love.
Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove.
We only live, only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire.
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The death of hope and despair,
This is the death of air.
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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
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What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
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What is the late November doing With the disturbance of the spring.
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Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden.
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A people without history
Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern
Of timeless moments. So, while the light fails
On a winter's afternoon, in a secluded chapel
History is now and England.
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To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one will continue to exist in the best-possible substitute for this world, or that after living a starved and stunted life here one will be compensated with all the good things one has gone without: it is to believe that the supernatural is the greatest reality here and now.
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Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
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Water and fire shall rot
The marred foundations we forgot,
Of sanctuary and choir.
This is the death of water and fire.
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So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.
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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the
dance.
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The only hope, or else despair
Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre -
To be redeemed from fire by fire.
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There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.
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O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark,
The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant.
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Keeping time,
Keeping the rhythm in their dancing As in their living in the living seasons The time of the seasons and the constellations The time of milking and the time of harvest The time of the coupling of man and woman And that of beasts. Feet rising and falling.
Eating and drinking. Dung and death.
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Born:
September 26, 1888
Died:
January 4, 1965
(aged 76)
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