 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - Drama - 1971 - 408 pages
...and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end. And all is always now. Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the...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
...here . . . The same complaint is made in the early quartets, as in the final section of Burnt Norton: Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the...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... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 604 pages
...order of speech, and the beauty of incantation. TS Eliot, 1934, Choruses from The Rock', no. IX 28:21 Words strain, / Crack and sometimes break, under the...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
...and lineage, enjoying both works with attention and profit. Beowulf Between Old and Modern English Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the...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... | |
 | Jean Stairs - Religion - 230 pages
...form of prayer as "the beautiful darkness of trusting God to pray within me."" To quote TS Eliot, when "words strain, crack and sometimes break, under the...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... | |
 | Modris Eksteins - History - 2000 - 420 pages
...slopping along the army went slopping along by your side, and splashed you from head to foot." Thus: . . . Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the...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
...possible for the 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...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;... | |
 | Anthony Molino, Christine Ware - Psychology - 2001 - 272 pages
...different categories. Thus were we reminded, when mapping out this volume, of TS Eliot's admonition: Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the...imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.'' So too these chapters, these challenges to normalization, will not stay still in places like 'Reappraisals',... | |
 | Alister E. McGrath - Religion - 2003 - 374 pages
...faced with such a vision of God - a thought famously expressed byT. S. Eliot in Burnt Norton:•'1 Words strain Crack and sometimes break, under the...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... | |
 | Eraldo Affinati, Белла Ахмадулина - Poetry - 2001 - 332 pages
...d'angoscia, le voci assordanti, «il lamento della sconsolata Chimera» di Burnì Norton di Eliot: [...] Words strain, crack and sometimes break, under the...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... | |
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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. 
