Eliot poem

[Maura Santangelo]

Athena

the poem is by Eliot and it is the last of the 4 quartets, Little
Gidding.  The last stanza where the quote id found is:

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.
Through the unknown, remembered gate
when the last of earth left to discover
is that which was the beginning;
at the source of the longest river
the voice of the hidden waterfall
and the children in the apple-tree
not known because not looked for
but heard, half-heard, in the stillness
between two waves of the sea.
Quick now, here, now, always--
a condition of complete simplicity
(costing no less than everything)
and all shall be well and
all manner of thing shall be well
'when the tongues of flame are in-folded
into the crown knot of fire
and the fire and the rose are one.

Maura