Free Download: T.S. Eliot, “Four Quartets”

Sunday, April 9, 2017 19:33

% of readers think this story is Fact. Add your two cents.

“Little Gidding”, Excerpt

“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.

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)

And all shall be well and

All manner of thing shall be well

When the tongues of flames are in-folded

Into the crowned knot of fire

And the fire and the rose are one.”

- T.S. Eliot

The “Little Gidding” is the last of T. S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets,”

which you may freely download here:

Comments