The dove descending breaks the air
With flame of incandescent terrorOf which the tongues declare
The one discharge from sin and error.
The only hope, or else despair
Lies in the choice of pyre of pyre—
To be redeemed from fire by fire.
Who then devised the torment? Love.
Love is the unfamiliar Name
Behind the hands that wove
The intolerable shirt of flame
Which human power cannot remove.
We only live, only suspire
Love is the unfamiliar Name
Behind the hands that wove
The intolerable shirt of flame
Which human power cannot remove.
We only live, only suspire
Consumed by either fire or fire.
LITTLE GIDDING
(No. 4 of ‘Four Quartets’)
T.S. Eliot
LITTLE GIDDING
(No. 4 of ‘Four Quartets’)
T.S. Eliot
Don't Surrender your lonliness
So quickly,
Let it cut more deep.
-Hafiz


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