"Four Quartets" Quotes
Reflections on time, nature, and the human experience intricately woven in T.S. Eliot's poetic masterpiece.
poetry | 58 pages | Published in 1943
Quotes
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.
In my beginning is my end.
Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future, and time future contained in time past.
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
Only by the form, the pattern, can words or music reach the stillness.
The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
To be conscious is not to be in time but only in time can the moment in the rose-garden, the moment in the arbour where the rain beat, the moment in the draughty church at smokefall be remembered; involved with past and future.
Men and bits of paper, whirled by the cold wind, that blows before and after time.
Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened into the rose-garden.
