Tonight's Poetry Corner

[pat]

The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven,
The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit.
O world of spring and autumn, birth and dying!
The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.
All our knowledge brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to God.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Brings us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.

T.S. Eliot, Choruses from The Rock

Comments

[subtlecynic.livejournal.com]

Your post reminded me of Minnesota Public Radio and their distribution via email list of a daily poem along with various literary historical/biographical tidbits specific to that day's date. If you are a Garrison Keillor fan(I'm not), they provide audio of the text and daily poem read by him.