Tuesday, September 01, 2020

Old men ought to be explorers

 --- T.S. Eliot, from East Coker, second of the Four Quartets

The last stanza:

Old men ought to be explorers

Here and there does not matter

We must be still and still moving

Into another intensity

For a further union, a deeper communion

Through the dark cold and empty desolation,

The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters

Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning.