Thursday, December 16, 2021

section V of Little Gidding, excerpt








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Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning,
Every poem an epitaph. And any action
Is a step to the block, to the fire, down the sea’s throat
Or to an illegible stone: and that is where we start.


We die with the dying:
See, they depart, and we go with them.
We are born with the dead:
See, they return, and bring us with them.


  
—T. S. Eliot
Four Quartets
 

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