tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4074861.post115621763536934793..comments2024-03-28T02:36:55.037-04:00Comments on Brooklyn Arden: T. S. Eliot on Writing: Three Selections from "Four Quartets"Cherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05972029478350879112noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4074861.post-1156294976902936092006-08-22T21:02:00.000-04:002006-08-22T21:02:00.000-04:00I'd never read this before. What powerful, careful...I'd never read this before. What powerful, careful words... gave me the shivers. <BR/><BR/>"For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business."<BR/><BR/>Isn't it the truth? You just have to do your best work and then let go. Like a friend of mine said, “You put your kid on the bus and go back to work.”<BR/><BR/>I did snort just a little at this...<BR/><BR/>"Taking its place to support the others,<BR/>The word neither diffident nor ostentatious,"<BR/><BR/>Pretty gutsy, that Mister Elliot, using the words,” diffident" and "ostentatious” to describe the process of picking the perfect words and how they shouldn't be... well... "Ostentatious".<BR/><BR/>More please,<BR/><BR/>MarilynThetoymakershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405265800595978197noreply@blogger.com