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At the still point of the turning world (from The Four Quartets)

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Original Language
English

Secular or Eclectic
20th Century

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.

 

 

-- from Four Quartets, by T. S. Eliot

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The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot, by A. David Moody
Collected Poems, 1909-1962, by T. S. Eliot
Complete Poems and Plays,: 1909-1950, by T. S. Eliot
Four Quartets, by T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot: The Philosopher Poet, by Alzina Stone Dale

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