T. S. Eliot Four Quartets East Coker Section III I dug out my copy of T. S. Eliot's Poetry. I have near me an old paperback that I have had for ages 'The Waste Land And Other Poems' thanks for reminding me about the book a biography on The Wasteland-Check out this book sometime on T. S. Eliot on writing the poem The Wasteland 'The World Broke In Two: Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, and the Year That Changed Literature' by Bill Goldstein. Now back to East Coker Section III when I continue to read where you stop the lines of poetry reminded me of St. John of the Cross his treatise The Ascent of Mount Carmel I won't quote Eliot since you have his Poem near you but compare these lines of St. John of the Cross with Eliot Sect. III
To reach satisfaction in all
desire satisfaction in nothing
To come to the knowledge of all
desire the knowledge of nothing
To come to possess all
desire the possession of nothing
To arrive at being all
desire to be nothing
I will now quote Eliot "To arrive where you are, to get from
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T. S. Eliot Four Quartets East Coker Section III I dug out my copy of T. S. Eliot's Poetry. I have near me an old paperback that I have had for ages 'The Waste Land And Other Poems' thanks for reminding me about the book a biography on The Wasteland-Check out this book sometime on T. S. Eliot on writing the poem The Wasteland 'The World Broke In Two: Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, and the Year That Changed Literature' by Bill Goldstein. Now back to East Coker Section III when I continue to read where you stop the lines of poetry reminded me of St. John of the Cross his treatise The Ascent of Mount Carmel I won't quote Eliot since you have his Poem near you but compare these lines of St. John of the Cross with Eliot Sect. III
To reach satisfaction in all
desire satisfaction in nothing
To come to the knowledge of all
desire the knowledge of nothing
To come to possess all
desire the possession of nothing
To arrive at being all
desire to be nothing
I will now quote Eliot "To arrive where you are, to get from ( ... )
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