"If you came this way,
Taking the route you would be likely to take
From the place you would be likely to come from,
If you came this way in may time, you would find the hedges
White again, in May, with voluptuary sweetness.
It would be the same at the end of the journey,
If you came at night like a broken king,
If you came by day not knowing what you came for,
It would be the same, when you leave the rough road
And turn behind the pig-sty to the dull facade
And the tombstone. And what you thought you came for
Is only a shell, a husk of meaning
From which the purpose breaks only when it is fulfilled
If at all. Either you had no purpose
Or the purpose is beyond the end you figured
And is altered in fulfilment. There are other places
Which also are the world's end, some at the sea jaws,
Or over a dark lake, in a desert or a city--
But this is the nearest, in place and time,
Now and in England.", Little Giddings, T.S. Elliot, quoted in Trevor Griffiths' Bill Brand
Stock Market News – Recess in The Playground
~ We are the hollow men
#Art #DigitalArt #AbstractSpaces #StockMarket #AmericanPolitics #AsemicArt #AsemicMusic #Culture #Dada #Dadaism #Dadaist #DadaistArt #NoiseMusic #Phantasmagoria #Poetry #TSElliot #TheHollowmen #TrumpTariffs
https://impliedspaces.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/stock-market-news-recess-in-the-playground/
@SearingTruth Actually, the poem your post reminded of was from #TSElliot, not Yeats (though Yeats is relevant as well):
" This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper."
From #TheHollowMen, TS Elliot, 1925.
Dedicating this to Christopher A. Wray, the current head of the #FBI, upon him announcing his intention to resign which saves #47 the trouble of firing him.
#Wray #ChristopherAWray #ChristopherWray #TheHollowMen #TSElliot #Gutless #Wimp
The Hollow Men: Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the shadow. -T.S. Eliot, poet (26 Sep 1888-1965)
Just finished the card back for my T.S. Elliot Waste Land and Other Poems tribute tarot deck.
"By this, and this only, we have existed
Which is not to be found in our obituaries
Or in memories draped by the beneficent spider"
"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." - T. S. Elliot #MondayMotivation #QuoteOfTheDay #ContinuousImprovement #Coaching #LyonStrategic #TSElliot
Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,
Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum—
Names that never belong to more than one cat.
But above and beyond there’s still one name left over,
And that is the name that you never will guess;
The name that no human research can discover—
But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.
When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
His ineffable effable
Effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular name.
#TSElliot
#poetry
#cats
#catsofmastodon
Source:
https://poets.org/poem/naming-cats
From Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Copyright © 1939 by T. S. Eliot, renewed © 1967 by Esme Valerie Eliot
