Four Quartets
by T.S. Eliot(1943)
Poemc. 35 pages
“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.”
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by T.S. Eliot(1943)
“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.”
T.S. Eliot(1943)
Eliot began these four poems in 1935, completed them in 1942, during the worst years of the war and his own worst years of personal misery. They are meditations on time and eternity, structured around the four elements, the four seasons, places Eliot knew. The Waste Land was an explosion; the Quartets are an architecture. Lines from them have entered common speech: the still point of the turning world, the end of all our exploring. Eliot considered this his finest achievement. Many readers agree. The poems reward every return.