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Four Quartets Jump to navigation Jump to search Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past. Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot is a work of four poems: Burnt Norton (1935), East Coker (1940), The Dry Salvages (1941), and Little Gidding (1942). Contents 1 Burnt Norton (1935) 2 East Coker (1940) 3 The Dry Salvages (1941) 4 Little Gidding (1942) 5 External links Burnt Norton (1935) Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind Cannot bear very much reality. What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is... All is always now. Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past. I What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind. But to what purpose Disturbing the dust on a bowl of rose-leaves I do not know.