 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - Drama - 1971 - 408 pages
...beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end. And all is always now. Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under...imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still. Shrieking voices Scolding, mocking, or merely chattering, Always assail them. The Word in the desert... | |
 | Leonard Unger - Biography & Autobiography - 1961 - 50 pages
...same complaint is made in the early quartets, as in the final section of Burnt Norton: Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under...imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still. Shrieking voices Scolding, mocking, or merely chattering, Always assail them. In East Coker the poet... | |
 | James R. Watson - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 248 pages
...of Stefan George and TS Eliot, until the publishers insisted otherwise. Eliot wrote: Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with impression, will not stay in place, Will not stay still. — Burnt Norton It is tempting to construct... | |
 | Kevin J. Harty - Performing Arts - 1999 - 292 pages
...yawns to the abyss" (25). In "Burnt Norton," Eliot, too, speaks to this condition: "Words strain, / Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, / Under the tension, slip, slide, perish" (121). In the modern and postmodern world, free play between signifier and signified has weakened our... | |
 | Jean Stairs - Religion - 230 pages
..."the beautiful darkness of trusting God to pray within me."" To quote TS Eliot, when "words strain, crack and sometimes break, under the burden, under...imprecision, will not stay in place, will not stay still,""' then we discover that words themselves can obstruct the gift of God's companionship with us. Rather... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 604 pages
...and the beauty of incantation. TS Eliot, 1934, Choruses from The Rock', no. IX 28:21 Words strain, / Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, / Under...imprecision, will not stay in place, / Will not stay stilL Shrieking voices / Scolding, mocking, or merely chattering, / Always assail them. TS Eliot, 1944, 'Burnt... | |
 | Roy Liuzza - Fiction - 1999 - 252 pages
...enjoying both works with attention and profit. Beowulf Between Old and Modern English Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under...imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still Early in the poem the technique of a court poet is described: At times the king's thane, full of grand... | |
 | Modris Eksteins - History - 2000 - 420 pages
...army went slopping along by your side, and splashed you from head to foot." Thus: . . . Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden. Under...imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay stilL soldiers too continued to talk about having "a rough time of it," having "a near go," being involved... | |
 | Robert L. Short - Religion - 2000 - 148 pages
...hearer. He is not even sure in his mind what the alternatives are. For the Church's "Words strain,/ Crack and sometimes break, under the burden,/ Under...imprecision, will not stay in place,/ Will not stay still."5 But the Church is not only guilty of committing its gospel to a decayed and imprecise vocabulary;... | |
 | Alister E. McGrath - Religion - 2003 - 374 pages
...such a vision of God - a thought famously expressed byT. S. Eliot in Burnt Norton:•'1 Words strain Crack and sometimes break, under the burden Under...imprecision, will not stay in place. Will not stay still. The trajectory of Dante's thought in this final canto of the Comedy leads through the visible heavens... | |
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Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still. 
