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Four Quartets
Four Quartets | T S Eliot
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The last major verse written by Nobel laureate T. S. Eliot, considered by Eliot himself to be his finest workFour Quartets is a rich composition that expands the spiritual vision introduced in The Waste Land. Here, in four linked poems ( Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and Little Gidding ), spiritual, philosophical, and personal themes emerge through symbolic allusions and literary and religious references from both Eastern and Western thought. It is the culminating achievement by a man considered the greatest poet of the twentieth century and one of the seminal figures in the evolution of modernism."
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Becker
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I‘m struggling to understand T.S. Eliot‘s Four Quartets collection. It is difficult and I‘ve had to go slow and gets lots of help from the Internet. I‘m making progress and every time I have a breakthrough of understanding, I have a greater appreciation for the work. I thought this quote was appropriate for the current world we find ourselves living in. 🌎

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wanderinglynn
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#acrossapril April 3: April TBR

I normally don‘t have a monthly TBR as I am a mood reader. So this is a special month! 🎉 The bottom 3 are my #bookspin books and the other 7 are because this is National Poetry month & #poetrymatters.

Eggs Beasts is on my list too 👏🏻📚 5y
AlaMich Moloka‘i is amazing! 5y
BubotheReader I own Moloka‘i! Keep us posted on if it‘s good! ☺️ 5y
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ErinSBecker I really enjoyed Moloka'i! 5y
robinb More Moloka‘i love! 🙋🏻‍♀️❤️ 5y
KristiAhlers I LOVED! Mollka‘i. I‘ve even read the follow up which was really good. 5y
TheSpineView You have some great poetry choices!❤ 5y
wanderinglynn @TheSpineView thank you ☺️ 5y
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gradcat
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#HumpDayPost

1. Forget-Me-Nots
2. Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
3. The Good Fight (so great, especially if you cannot stand our current blowhard-in-chief)
4. T. S. Eliot (favorite poem is tagged)

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LiterRohde
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“Neither plenitude nor vacancy. Only a flicker
Over the strained time-ridden faces
Distracted from distraction by distraction
Filled with fancies and empty of meaning
Tumid apathy with no concentration
Men and bits of paper, whirled by the cold wind
That blows before and after time,
Wind in and out of unwholesome lungs
Time before time and after.”

#QuotsyMay19 | 17: #Virtual

📷: Made with Typorama

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erzascarletbookgasm
Four Quartets | T. S. Eliot
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BookBabe Beautiful! And that candle is incredible. ❤️ 6y
TrishB Lovely 💕 6y
batsy I love this 🖤 6y
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LazyDays 💛 6y
Cathythoughts I love this too ♥️✨ 6y
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Cathythoughts
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#PoetryMatters #driven
Four Quartets, The Dry Salvages.
The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightening
Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply
That it is not heard at all , but you are the music
While the music lasts. ....... ♥️ TS Eliot

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TrishB Have read that and it‘s given me my first moment of peace in the day.....❤️ 6y
Cathythoughts @kspenmoll ♥️♥️♥️ 6y
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Cathythoughts @TrishB that‘s so lovely to hear ... @LazyDays has us taking time out for poetry !! Where would you get it ???? 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 6y
TrishB It‘s connected me back to my poetry books ❤️ 6y
Cathythoughts @TrishB me too .... ✨✨✨✨✨ 6y
LazyDays Wow. I can see him sharing this out loud with a crowd! Very moving💛 6y
LazyDays @Cathythoughts @TrishB aww you all are to kind. I am always happy to help and share!😘😘💛💛🤗🤗 6y
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Bookwomble
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“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.”

- Little Gidding

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Bookwomble
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Despite this space on my right being left deliberately cat-sized, Frankie insisted on usurping the lap-space I'd clearly designated for a book and mug of tea!

And, don't be fooled into thinking he has any interest in Eliot. He's on record as saying Old Possum is full of oppressive feline stereotypes, and that the modern poets in general are pretentious shitbags! 🐱☹🐱

Lel2403 Love it 😆 6y
GingerAntics 🤣😂🤣 my cat has similar thoughts on poetry 6y
saresmoore Bahahaha! 6y
Leftcoastzen 😂😻 6y
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Bookwomble
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Today, I picked up this 1969 slipcased, clothbound Folio edition. The slipcase shows only a little wear, pretty good for almost half-a-century, while the book itself is in lovely condition. The burnt-orange paper titles on the spine, and front and inside-back covers look like they were hand-cut and glued, but that might be wishful thinking! The spine label is, sadly, rather faded, but the others are nice and bright. 👇

Bookwomble The paper used is a buffish-cream, possibly a creamish-buff (😆) and had a nice, smooth feel as the pages turn. I think I'm slightly besotted! 6y
TrishB Lovely 👍🏻 6y
Aimeesue Pritty! ❤️ 6y
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ArteMitch
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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. 🌹🌹Burnt Norton ✨T. S. Eliot 🌹🌹

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dariazeoli
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“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”

cathysaid Love this 💕 7y
TrishB Lovely ❤️ 7y
Dulcinella ❤️❤️🥂 7y
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Krisjericho
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From Eliot‘s East Coker from the Four Quartets. I really like Eliot, even when I have to work hard to understand him, because he writes lines like this. #dance #quotsy #quotsydec17

merelybookish I like Eliot too. 7y
Cathythoughts Beautiful 7y
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merelybookish
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cloesavannah
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'The fire and the rose are one'
Amazing.

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GoneFishing
Four Quartets | T. S. Eliot

For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.

Annl Thanks for posting all these great quotes about the new year! 8y
Nat_Reads My favorite ❤️🎉 8y
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HyacinthGirl
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"To be conscious is not to be in time." Burnt Norton, line 85 #fourquartets #burntnorton #tseliot

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