/lit/ - Literature

Hello,

I liked T. S. Eliot's poems. I did not feel the same about W. B. Yeats'.

Could anyone be so kind as to point me in another direction?

ITT:

Your favourite quote.
>Bonus: In one paragraph, explain it affects you.

Mine:
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." - T. S. Elliot

>I find this profoundly philosophical and when I heard it it made perfect sense. Everytime I read it I think of Plato, and how all knowledge is inate and just needs to be unlocked - i.e. why they call it "research". Very profound and beautifully worded.

>>1705633

Oh, you. That was charming.

Ulysses: Approved by Eliot

Feel free to chill here man. Here, have a book.

And I have known the eyes already, known them all—
The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,
And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,
Then how should I begin
To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?
And how should I presume?

And I have known the arms already, known them all—
Arms that are braceleted and white and bare
[But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!]
It is perfume from a dress
That makes me so digress?
Arms that lie along a table, or wrap about a shawl.
And should I then presume?
And how should I begin?
. . . . .
Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets
And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes
Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows?…

I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.