Title: Four Quartets by T.S. Elliot
When did I first read it: incessantly during the late 70s and beginning of the 80s
When did I first read it: incessantly during the late 70s and beginning of the 80s
This book (four poems) transformed my life much like The Book of Ebenezer Le Page did. It made me believe that the world I lived in was larger than what I had been told it was. I read the poems over and over again, and I even bought the audiobook of Elliot reading them.
His voice was mesmerizing, both deeply present and deeply detached. I would not have understood his work without listening to the cadence of his words.
When I now read excerpts of his work 45 years later, the voice inside my head and the drum of my heart finds a dear friend with every turn of the page.
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