0fu (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} 0fu) wrote,@ 2004-02-15 03:52:00 |
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sometimes its best to pay homage...
"It seems, as one becomes older,
That the past has another pattern,
and ceases to be a mere sequence....
I sometimes wonder if that is
what Krishna meant—
Among other things—or one way
of putting the same thing:
That the future is a faded song,
a Royal Rose or a lavender spray
Of wistful regret for those who are
not yet here to regret,
Pressed between yellow leaves
of a book that has never been opened.
And the way up is the way down,
the way forward is the way back."
T. S. Eliot, "Four Quartets"
"It seems, as one becomes older,
That the past has another pattern,
and ceases to be a mere sequence....
I sometimes wonder if that is
what Krishna meant—
Among other things—or one way
of putting the same thing:
That the future is a faded song,
a Royal Rose or a lavender spray
Of wistful regret for those who are
not yet here to regret,
Pressed between yellow leaves
of a book that has never been opened.
And the way up is the way down,
the way forward is the way back."
T. S. Eliot, "Four Quartets"
