...stillness, as a Chinese jar still Moves perpetually in its stillness. Not the stillness of the violin, while the note lasts, Not that only, but the co-existence,...beginning and after the end. And all is always now. Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,...

...stillness, as a Chinese jar still Moves perpetually in its stillness. Not the stillness of the violin, while the note lasts, Not that only, but the co-existence,...beginning and after the end. And all is always now. I have remarked more than once in this paper on the modesty of the poet, on what has to be termed his...

...past and time future What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. Or say that the end precedes the beginning, And the...always there Before the beginning and after the end. There is, however, a flaw in this formally impeccable logic. In the first place, to assume from what...

...stillness, as a Chinese jar still Moves perpetually in its stillness. Not the stillness of the violin, while the note lasts, Not that only, but the co-existence,...beginning and after the end. And all is always now. Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,...

...in either city or Temple. The catastrophe would be complete and the end final. But as always '. . . the end precedes the beginning, and the end and the...were always there, before the beginning and after the end'.45 God's 'mighty act', beyond man's power to accomplish, shall again appear, something as stupendous...

...thought of as existing simultaneously. In the last movement of the "Burnt Norton" quartet, Eliot writes: Or say that the end precedes the beginning, And the...beginning and after the end. And all is always now. . . . Two important comments can be made on these lines. The first is that they take us into realm...

...Gottes als des "Ersten und des Letzten" (Jes. 41,1), als "Alpha und Omega, Anfang und Ende" (Apk. 41,4): "the end precedes the beginning,/ And the end and...always there/ Before the beginning and after the end" (Z. 9-11). Der dann folgende Satz wirkt noch beiläufiger dahingesagt durch die additive Konjunktion,...

...stillness, as a Chinese jar still Moves perpetually in its stillness. Not the stillness of the violin, while the note lasts, Not that only, but the co-existence,...beginning and after the end. And all is always now. Words strain, Crack, and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,...

...stillness, as a Chinese jar still Moves perpetually in its stillness. Not the stillness of the violin, while the note lasts, Not that only, but the co-existence,...beginning and after the end, And all is always now. Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,...

...stillness, as a Chinese jar still Moves perpetually in its stillness. Not the stillness of the violin, while the note lasts, Not that only, but the co-existence,...always there Before the beginning and after the end. (Ibid., V) Note the way in which Eliot links — paradoxically, in the sense defined above — notions...