Redeeming Time Quotes

“without thought, for you are not ready for thought”
― Kenneth Paul Kramer, Redeeming Time: T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets

“I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope / For hope would be hope for the wrong thing”
― Kenneth Paul Kramer, Redeeming Time: T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets

“We die with the dying: See, they depart, and we go with them. We are born with the dead: See, they return, and bring us with them.”
― Kenneth Paul Kramer, Redeeming Time: T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets

“Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove.”
― Kenneth Paul Kramer, Redeeming Time: T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets

“Those who delve into the past to escape the boredom of the present are like those who would escape into the future to find clues to the present.”
― Kenneth Paul Kramer, Redeeming Time: T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets

“The bitter apple and the bite in the apple. And the ragged rock in the restless waters, Waves wash over it, fogs conceal it; On a halcyon day it is merely a monument, In navigable weather it is always a seamark To lay a course by: but in the sombre season Or the sudden fury, is what it always was.”
― Kenneth Paul Kramer, Redeeming Time: T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets