Poetry is to Music as Lyric is to Soul for Wednesday, November 15, 2006

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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

TS Eliot

Burnt Norton I Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable. What might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation. What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. My words... Sign in to see full entry.

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