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[coraa]

There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.
- T.S. Eliot

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[morganlf.livejournal.com]

In a minute there is time. For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

[coraa.livejournal.com]

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.

[morganlf.livejournal.com]

god i love his poetry sometimes...

LET us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats 5
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question … 10
Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”
Let us go and make our visit.

In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.

[porfinn.livejournal.com]

Hurray for toast and tea! And T.S. Eliot poetry.

[fairnymph.livejournal.com]

I will forever be able to hear it is in his own voice, having heard the recording.

[artemis-lizzie.livejournal.com]

In my senior humanities class, there was a tradition, that every year, somebody in that class learned that entire poem backwards.

[neonelephant.livejournal.com]

This is my fault, isn't it?

[coraa.livejournal.com]

You're what got my brain started down that path yesterday, yes.

That particular part of that particular poem has lived at the back of my brain for years, however.