May 27, 2005
Literary Quote of the Day
From the book I’m reading:
From wrong to wrong the exasperated spirit
Proceeds, unless restored by that refining fire
–T.S.
Eliot, The Four Quartets
It’s so nice to read for pleasure, with no guilt, now that the semester is over.
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I LOOOOOOVE Eliot. For many years he was my favorite poet (I have many,now). And I love “Little Gidding,” the fourth quartet. I actually have a weird sorta first edition of that poem, published as a kinda chapbook thing —only a few pages, paper binding, large format, stapled.
Did you ever see the movie Butley? Alan Bates is fabulous as a failed English professor obsessed with Eliot and Beatrix Potter, whose life is coming apart at the seams. He’s always quoting, and having students read beautiful passages from, that poem.
i don’t really know a lot about him, but he’s all over the book i’m reading–you should definitely read it, if you haven’t already, it’s called ‘the archivist.’