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jkstonge's review against another edition
3.5
'Fare forward, you who think that you are voyaging;/ You are not those who saw the harbor/ Receding, or those who will disembark./ Here between the hither and the farther shore/ While time is withdrawn, consider the future/ And the past with an equal mind."
"For last year's words belong to last year's language/ And next year's words await another voice."
"For last year's words belong to last year's language/ And next year's words await another voice."
happylilkt's review against another edition
5.0
I know I will be reading and studying this throughout my lifetime. Little Gidding alone...
"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;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
Quick now, here, now, always--
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)"
"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;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
Quick now, here, now, always--
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)"
chll_momchil's review against another edition
4.0
"В неподвижната точка/ на кръжащия свят./ Нито от плът,/ нито без плът,/ ни от, ни към;
в неподвижната точка/ е танцът." - бавно, но славно; славно, но бавно
в неподвижната точка/ е танцът." - бавно, но славно; славно, но бавно
trin's review against another edition
4.0
Mystery box book #12!
I've definitely read this before -- I read "Burnt Norton" earlier this year, in fact -- but I can't remember the last time I read the full cycle. It's good -- complex and strange and unknowable. I like that about it, and Eliot's work in general: the feeling that there are a thousand different stories in every single line, and no matter how many times I reread, I'll never comprehend them all.
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.
I've definitely read this before -- I read "Burnt Norton" earlier this year, in fact -- but I can't remember the last time I read the full cycle. It's good -- complex and strange and unknowable. I like that about it, and Eliot's work in general: the feeling that there are a thousand different stories in every single line, and no matter how many times I reread, I'll never comprehend them all.
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.
kimberleyliterally's review against another edition
challenging
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
briywest's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
This book forms the foundation for my entire world view, hard to overrate it.
oumaima_mekni's review against another edition
4.0
These four poems are some of the finest pieces of poetry that I have ever read. But I've got to say, "East Coker", the second poem, took my breath away. I can't describe the surge of feelings I went through while reading the second one. Overall, reading this was honestly an extraterrestrial experience.