Eliot poem

[Sue Kenney]

Thank you for sharing this.
As a pilgrim, it's profound.

Sue

Maura Santangelo wrote:

> 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