September 27, 2005
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I was perusing through my old livejournal entries once again, and I came across the following excerpt from a poem by T.S. Eliot:
(originally from here)
excerpted from 'Four Quartets,' IV:V...
with the drawing of this Love and the voice of this calling
we shall not cease from exploration
and the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive where we started
and know the place for the first time.
through the unknown, unremembered gate
when the last of earth left to discover
is that which was the beginning...
quick now, here, now, always--
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 in-folded
into the crowned knot of fire
and the fire and the rose are one.
Comments (2)
Nice poem. Have a Happy Tuesday.
RYC Pic. 37 - Picture of a lizard on an advertisement board of Bata, a shoe company. I did not have an opportunity to grow up in American literature. So the poem has many nice verses but I do not know where it came from, what it talked about, in what situation. If you have a little extra time, could you please explain a little more about this poem? Thanks.
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