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Eliot was much influenced by John of the Cross. Here is a tribute and allusion to him from Eliot\u2019s East Coker<\/i>:
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\n<\/span>
\n\u00a0 You say I am repeating<\/span>
\n<\/span>Something I have said before. I shall say it again.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Shall I say it again? In order to arrive there,<\/span>
\n<\/span>To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not,<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.<\/span>
\n<\/span>In order to arrive at what you do not know<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance.<\/span>
\n<\/span>In order to possess what you do not possess<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 You must go by the way of dispossession.<\/span>
\n<\/span>In order to arrive at what you are not<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 You must go through the way in which you are not.<\/span>
\n<\/span>And what you do not know is the only thing you know<\/span>
\n<\/span>And what you own is what you do not own<\/span>
\n<\/span>And where you are is where you are not.<\/span><\/span>
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\n<\/span><\/span>
\nDo you read T.S.Eliot? You ought to.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
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\n<\/span><\/span>
\nEspecially his Four Quartets.<\/i>\u00a0They are the most spiritual poems written in the twentieth century, and Eliot was, above all, a mystic. Don\u2019t let anybody tell you otherwise, and certainly don\u2019t be swayed by that crap about him being a misogynistic, anti-Semite. There\u2019s a smear campaign going on by the liberal intelligentsia because Eliot was un-apologetically Christian.<\/span><\/span>
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\nPS: It was T.S.Eliot who taught me the word \u2018inchoate\u2019.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eliot was much influenced by John of the Cross. Here is a tribute and allusion to him from Eliot\u2019s East Coker: \u00a0 You say I am repeating Something I have said before. I shall say it again. Shall I say it again? In order to arrive there, To arrive where you are, to get from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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