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Four Quartets (1943)
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Desire itself is movement
Not in itself desirable;
Love is itself unmoving,
Only the cause and end of movement,
Timeless, and undesiring
Except in the aspect of time
Caught in the form of limitation
Between un-being and being.
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I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river
Is a strong brown god—sullen, untamed and intractable.
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Trying to learn to use words, and every attempt
Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure.
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And what the dead had no speech for, when living,
They can tell you, being dead: the communication
Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flame are infolded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.
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A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings. The poetry does not matter.
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Born:
September 26, 1888
Died:
January 4, 1965
(aged 76)
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