 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - Drama - 1971 - 408 pages
...middle way, having had twenty yearsTwenty years largely wasted, the years of I'entre deux guerres— Trying to learn to use words, and every attempt Is...deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling, Undisciplined squads of emotion. And what there is to conquer By strength and submission,... | |
 | Homer Edward Newell - Astronautics - 1980 - 526 pages
...worth, and to do this without undercutting the one aspect or overselling the other. Part II Taproots Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate...deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling. TS Eliot, East Coker 3 Prophets and Pioneers of Spaceflight The rocket apparently made its... | |
 | Paul Morrison - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 188 pages
...the conception and the creation falls the shadow, and Four Quartets occupies the interspace: . . . every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different...deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling, Undisciplined squads of emotion. (CP 182) The saying and what is to be said, the subject of... | |
 | Maxwell Steer - Music - 1996 - 192 pages
...similar. This is the meaning I take from the passage in TS Eliot's Four Quartets where he says . . . each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate...deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling . . . Going on to speak of 'undisciplined squads of emotion' Eliot uses language symptomatic... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...British statesman, author, quoted in Times (London, Nov. 20, 1873). Speech, Nov. 19, 1873, Glasgow. 13 Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate...deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling. TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT, (1888-1965) Anglo-American poet, critic. "East Coker," pt. 5 (1940).... | |
 | Michael J. Power, Tim Dalgleish - Psychology - 1997 - 512 pages
...Barrie, Northern Ontario. Wow! That was some year — two hot air balloons! CHAPTER ONE Introduction Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate...deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling (TS Eliot) PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS The experience of happiness is one that people go to extraordinary... | |
 | Harold Schweizer - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 240 pages
...crisis holds the possibility of a recovery of the original motivation to write. Thus, Eliot concludes, "And so each venture is a new beginning, a raid on...inarticulate / With shabby equipment always deteriorating. . . ." 2I To encounter the other in her pain and to tell her story is therefore not simply a matter... | |
 | Hugh J. Silverman - Philosophy - 1997 - 382 pages
...fully adequate to the task, it is the only task worthy of language. One might say with Eliot that: each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating Tor us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.'31 It is not simply that the language... | |
 | Richard E. Wentz - History - 1997 - 180 pages
...All religions must end, and perhaps know with TS Eliot that "In my beginning is my end. . . . [Ejach venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always deteriorating." 26 Religion itself dissolves; it is a constant and futile human invention that bears the force of its... | |
 | Shelby Foote, Walker Percy - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 324 pages
...pessimism every time he takes up the pen." It's one of the saddest things about writing; as Eliot says, "One has only learnt to get the better of words for...deteriorating in the general mess of imprecision of feeling." That is from the second of the Four Quartets and I have quoted it to you before. It's profoundly... | |
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Trying to learn to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say... 
