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Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 03 Burnt Norton III
Identifier
013547
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Extract from III
A description of the experience
Burnt Norton
Descend lower, descend only
lnto the world of perpetual solitude,
World not world, but that which is not world,
lnternal darkness, deprivation
And destitution of all property,
Desiccation of the world of sense,
Evacuation of the world of fancy,
lnoperancy of the world of spirit;
This is the one way, and the other
Is the same, not in movement
But abstention from movement; while the world moves
ln appetency, on its metalled ways
Of time past and time future