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A review by trin
Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
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.