The dripping blood our only drink,
The bloody flesh our only food:
In spite of which we like to think
That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood-
Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.
#tseliot

Burnt Norton, the first of Eliot's Four Quartets, was published 90 years ago today in Collected Poems 1909-1935.

#tseliot #burntnorton #fourquartets #poetry #onthisday

April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
#TSEliot

#thewasteland #April #tseliot #poetry #poetrycommunity #writersofinstagram #poem #quotes #poet #writer #poems #poetsofinstagram #writing #poetrylovers #quoteoftheday #thoughts #quote #writerscommunity #writersofig #writingcommunity #quotestagram #poetryisnotdead #inspirationalquotes #wordporn

April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.

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#Poetry
#TSEliot
#April

𝐴𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑒̀ 𝑖𝑙 𝑝𝑖𝑢̀ 𝑐𝑟𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑖 𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑖: 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎
𝐿𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑎̀ 𝑑𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑎 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎 𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑎, 𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑎
𝑅𝑖𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑜 𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜, 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑜𝑙𝑎
𝐿𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑖 𝑐𝑜𝑛 𝑙𝑎 𝑝𝑖𝑜𝑔𝑔𝑖𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑙𝑒.

T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land
Traduzione di Mario Praz

#poesia #aprile #Eliot #TSEliot

#Abril #literature #poesia #TSEliot

𝘈𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘭 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘶𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩,

The opening lines of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land from the sublime Malpartida translation.

While visiting London in March 1926, Henry Ware Eliot Jr photographed his brother at his new place of work – the Faber & Gwyer offices at 24 Russell Square in the heart of Bloomsbury.

#100yearsago #tseliot #faber #publishinghistory #london

“The formed stone, the visible crucifix,
The dressed altar, the lifting light,
LIght
Light
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.”
T S Eliot (1934)
#photography #altar #IonaAbbey #IsleOfIona #Scotland #islands #Abbey #marble #IonaMarble #PotD #poetry #TSEliot

lunar delight

Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still. —T.S. Eliot

#TSEliot #naturalphilosophy #ethicalphilosophy #mindfulness #acceptance

close up of the school of athens, painted by raphael: animaxander copies the work of pythagoras, the former labelled: rome, the latter: greece

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.” –T.S. Eliot

We see you Virgil.

#ancienthistory #rome #greece #poetry #tseliot #humor #humour #theschoolofathens

What do these people have in common, you ask?

They all feature in the online supplement to Volume 10 of The Letters of T. S. Eliot (1942-1944) which is now live on our website!

Explore the letters here: bit.ly/3NTJjs2

#tseliot #thelettersoftseliot #letters

lunar delight

Humankind cannot bear very much reality. — T.S. Eliot

#TSEliot #reality #humankind

lunar delight

Humankind cannot bear very much reality. —T.S. Eliot

#TSEliot #humankind #reality

The views of 30 year-old T. S. Eliot in his essay ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’, published in The Egoist in 1919.

Read the essay: tseliot.com/essays/tradi...

#tseliot #poetry #poets #criticism

Direct me to The Waist Land doughnut shop, where April is Crullers Month.

#TSEliot #TheWasteLand

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

- #TSEliot, 'Four Quartets'

Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires,
Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earth
Which is already flesh, fur and faeces,
Bone of man and beast, cornstalk and leaf.
#Norwich
#tseliot

#love #tseliot

From Elliot's I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god - sullen, untamed and intractable,

#aiartcommunity #aiphotography #tseliot

𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳
𝘐𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘨𝘰𝘥

So very kind of you to say I am a wonderful poet! No-one ever said that before! Wow! I was trying to channel my inner TS Eliot
#TSEliot

We think of the key, each in his prison
Thinking of the key, each confirms his prison
- #TSEliot, #TheWasteland

T.S. Eliot's "Ash Wednesday" Some thoughts on the poem and the day

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@finishinglinepress.bsky.social @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social #poetry #tseliot #ashwednesday

#ashwednesday #lent #tseliot

A prayer from T. S. Eliot's 𝘈𝘴𝘩 𝘞𝘦𝘥𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘺 offered to all who struggle with fruitless introspection and unproductive rumination.

May you find peace and purpose in this season of austerity, prayer and penitence

#Grok #Lent #TSEliot

Grok on the approaching Lenten season:

'Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still in the tension between dying and birth where three dreams cross like faint blue veins beneath skin, and the silent Word waits at the center, unheard, unheeded, yet burning.'

In order to arrive at what you are not
You must go through the way in which you are not.
And what you do not know is the only thing you know
And what you own is what you do not own
And where you are is where you are not."

- #TSEliot, 'Four Quartets,' 'East Coker' 2

#TSELIOT ON THE WAY

"To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not,
You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.
In order to arrive at what you do not know.

#literature #poetry #tseliot

A fragment from T. S. Eliot's 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘥 to be considered in isolation.

#Limerick #entertainment #humor #Growltiger #fun #TSEliot #OlPossum #TheBobs #Fluffy www.youtube.com/channel/UCnf...

Malcolm Guite: Poet’s Corner There is hope for those who are easily distracted, writes Malcolm Guite

"If you struggle with distraction, even and especially distraction in a church service or in private prayer, you are at least in good company"

There is hope for those who are easily distracted, writes M alcolm Guite
#PoetsCorner #poetry #TSEliot #JohnDonne