Little Gidding Quotes

“So I find words I never thought to speak

In streets I never thought I should revisit

When I left my body on a distant shore.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Quick now, here, now, always--
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)”
― T. S. Eliot

“You are not here to verify,
instruct yourself, or inform curiosity
or carry report. You are here to kneel
where prayer has been valid. And prayer is more than an order of words, the conscious occupation of the praying mind, or the sound of the voice praying.”
― T. S. Eliot

“Dust in the air suspended,
Marks the place where a story ended.”
― T.S. Eliot

“We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”
― T.S. Eliot

“He seems in these verses to capture something of the nature of pilgrimage - the precise directions to somewhere often awkward to find; and you're not sure quite why you came or what it was you're looking for. If you find it, or it finds you, words cannot easily convey what has happened but it becomes part of the journey that continues." (Daily Celtic Prayer book)”
― Richard Foster

“Who then devised the torment? Love.”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets