Mastodawn

“Is it perfume from a dress / That makes me so digress?”

No, Eliot, it is not the perfume
From a dress or otherwise
That makes me digress.

I digress
Because the mind itself is a digression
Or so I am told.

Sometimes I wonder
If it is not spiritual atyachar
For God to have created
This dilemma, this ridiculousness
That after spending a lifetime
In figuring out the Truth
You are told
What the mind understands
Is still not it.

I would like to ask God,
“Why then God
Give us a mind at all
That cannot fathom it.”

#Advaita #Eliot #God #IndianPhilosophy #Mind #Nonduality #PhilosophyOfLife #Poem #Poetry #Silence #SpiritualQuest #SpiritualSadhana #Spirituality #Surrender #Truth #TSEliot #Upanishads #World

Heiko Fischer Apr 5

#sketchbook #april #tseliot #daswüsteland

River City Random ☑️Apr 3

#TodayIFoundOut that the Heaviside layer, the name for heaven in the #Cats #musical, is an actual part of the earth's atmosphere. Remarkably, it is an ionized layer that reflects radio waves back down to the surface, allowing for long-distance radio broadcasts before satellites were a thing. It would have been big news in the 1930's when #TSEliot was writing his original cat poetry. Perhaps this is why the #JellicleCats believe this is where they will be sent back to earth and reincarnated?

BornToBeBlueUnderABadSign Apr 1

𝐴𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑒̀ 𝑖𝑙 𝑝𝑖𝑢̀ 𝑐𝑟𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑖 𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑖: 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎
𝐿𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑎̀ 𝑑𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑎 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎 𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑎, 𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑎
𝑅𝑖𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑜 𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜, 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑜𝑙𝑎
𝐿𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑖 𝑐𝑜𝑛 𝑙𝑎 𝑝𝑖𝑜𝑔𝑔𝑖𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑙𝑒.

T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land
Traduzione di Mario Praz

#poesia #aprile #Eliot #TSEliot

cctmwebsite Apr 1

Aprile è il mese più crudele; fa nascere
i lillà dalla terra addormentata, e mescola
memoria e desideri … https://cctm.website/t-s-eliot-aprile/

T. S. Eliot

da La Terra desolata, Einaudi, 1963

#aprile #tseliot #poesia #cctmwebsite #anoipiaceleggere #leggere

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Speckled Band Mar 28

The title is taken from TS Eliot’s The Waste Land - and he took it from The Tempest by Shakespeare …

I remember
Those are pearls that were his eyes.
“Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head?”

(From The Waste Land)

#shakespeare #TSEliot #thewasteland #poetry #poem

Mark A. Rayner Mar 24

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.” –T.S. Eliot

We see you Virgil.

#ancienthistory #rome #greece #poetry #tseliot #humor #humour #theschoolofathens

Sean Mar 7

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_new/116177713014688778

Features essays on #humanism by many folks, including #tseliot.

Another 'production' of mine. Did you read it? Inquiring minds want to know, even if you come across this years later.

harriehq Feb 25

Haul from the "local" used book shop…

(top to bottom)

"Gregg Shorthand Dictionary"
"Merry Wives of Windsor" by Shakespeare (that's the opera, by Nicolai Otto, I saw last Friday)
"The Wordsworth Dictionary of Shakespeare" by Charles Boyce
Tennessee Williams "Plays 1957-1980"
T. S. Eliot "Collected Poems"
"Clown" by Jon Davison (Readings in Theatre Practice)
"A Bibliography of Early Secular American Music" by Sonneck / Upton
"The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics" by Preminger / Warnke / Hardison