...answered light to light, and is silent, the light is still At the still point of the turning world. Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which...in its stillness. Not the stillness of the violin, while the note lasts, Not that only, but the co-existence, Or say that the end precedes the beginning,...

...movements of the two framing Quartets, "Burnt Norton" and "Little Gidding." Thus, "Burnt Norton" V opens: Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which...in its stillness. Not the stillness of the violin, while the note lasts, Not that only, but the co-existence, Or say that the end precedes the beginning,...

...verified. This is the force of "pattern" in Eliot's "Burnt Norton": Words move, music moves Only in rime; but that which is only living Can only die. Words,...Chinese jar still Moves perpetually in its stillness. 30 This is as close as Eliot can come—as close as he is willing to come, to try to come closer being...

...1925-1948 232]). Aesthetic consciousness, the artifice of eternity, is the primary groundwork: . . . Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music...in its stillness. Not the stillness of the violin, while the note lasts, Not that only, ... (194) For a secularized and aestheticized mandarinate 'the...

...zenshii NKBT Nihon koten bungaku taikei STZ Shimazaki Toson zenshii TSS Tsubouchi Shoyo shU introduction Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which...die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. — TS Eliot, "Burnt Norton" Being a high modernist was probably not much fun, even under the best...

...education of a young girl of the haute bourgeoisie at the turn of the century. Like Eliot's china jar which "still / Moves perpetually in its stillness" ("Not the stillness of the violin, while the note lasts, /Not that only . . ."),48 Julie is the apotheosis of high culture. At once its...

...more fully how his manipulation of our awareness of meter organizes our temporal experience (33, 180): Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which...in its stillness. Not the stillness of the violin, while the note lasts, Not that only, but the co-existence, Or say that the end precedes the beginning,...

...lines of Section V imply that the union of the two may somehow bring about an end to the conflict: Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which...Chinese jar still moves perpetually in its stillness. (Poems, 174) The moving life - "Words move, music moves" - exists within time, but is subject to time's...

...Be remembered; involved with past and future. Only through time time is conquered. (Ibid., II) . . . Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music...in its stillness. Not the stillness of the violin, while the note lasts, Not that only, but the co-existence, Or say that the end precedes the beginning,...

...memory and anticipation. TS Eliot may have remembered Canto 25 when he wrote "Burnt Norton" v (1936): Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which...in its stillness. Not the stillness of the violin, while the note lasts, Not that only, but the co-existence, Or say that the end precedes the beginning....