"To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life."
-- T.S. Eliot, who died #OTD 1965
-- T.S. Eliot, who died #OTD 1965
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"I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"
tread lightly on this earth of Europe
lest my people’s bones protest.
E. Litvinoff, To TS Eliott
https://iamthelizardqueen.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/emanuel-litvinoff-to-ts-eliot/
For context :
https://www.jewishrhody.com/stories/the-stain-on-ts-eliot,1728
To keep our metaphysics warm."
Along the reaches of the street
Held in lunar synthesis
Whispering lunar incantations
Dissolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations
Its divisions and precisions
Every lampost that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes ....