T. S. Eliot Quartets Quotations

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.

In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.

Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

Only through time time is conquered

There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.

In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.

A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)

And the end and the beginning where always there, before the beginning and after the end.

The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.