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You say I am repeating (from The Four Quartets)

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Secular or Eclectic
20th Century

               You say I am repeating
Something I have said before. I shall say it again.
Shall I say it again? In order to arrive there,
To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not,
     You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.
In order to arrive at what you do not know
     You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance.
In order to possess what you do not possess
     You must go by the way of dispossession.
In order to arrive at what you are not
     You must go through the way in which you are not.
And what you do not know is the only thing you know
And what you own is what you do not own
And where you are is where you are not.

 

 

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

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Recommended Books


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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