 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - Drama - 1971 - 408 pages
...fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight, The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts. These are only hints and guesses, Hints followed by guesses; and the rest Is prayer, observance,... | |
 | Cleanth Brooks - Literary Criticism - 1963 - 160 pages
...fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight, The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts. Yet some of these elusive images of sight and sound and smell are brilliantly suggestive and... | |
 | Richard R. O'Keefe - Literary Collections - 1995 - 252 pages
...or with art. (One recalls how Eliot expresses the same aesthetic with hearing in The Four Quartets: "music heard so deeply / That it is not heard at all, but you are the music / While the music lasts."4) But the very end of Emerson's passage is its most controversial part — "The currents of... | |
 | Neal J. Cohen, Howard Eichenbaum - Medical - 1993 - 1182 pages
...that, for a moment we are thinking Beethoven's musical thoughts with him. In such moments the music is heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts 2 Yet if anyone were to ask at that moment, "Where is Beethoven now?" —we could only reply... | |
 | Shira Wolosky, Shira Wolosky Weiss - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 356 pages
...moment in and out of time." And this is finally represented, not as language, but as silence and union: "Music heard so deeply / That it is not heard at all, but you are the music while it lasts." Language in fact doubles as (faulty) dispersed medium and representation or trope of (faulty)... | |
 | Jean Shinoda Bolen - Health & Fitness - 1998 - 230 pages
...kairos, as does listening to words or music which seem to be expressions of ourselves: it is ". . . music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all, but you are the music while the music lasts. "5 Kairos is soul-nourishing time. Whatever we do in kairos is soul-satisfying^ us. When I pull... | |
 | Christopher J. Knight - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 324 pages
...fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight, The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts. These are only hints and guesses, Hints followed by guesses... —TS Eliot, "The Dry Salvages"... | |
 | Claire Blatchford - Education - 1997 - 172 pages
...us along. Its pulse becomes part of our pulse. The poet TS Eliot expressed this feeling as follows: Music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, But you are the music While the music lasts. Even in the modern world, we use music for its special powers. Dairy farmers say cows give more... | |
 | Frederick Levison - Future life - 1997 - 100 pages
...fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight. The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts. These are only hints and guesses, Hints followed by guesses... ' TS Eliot1 There are no proofs... | |
 | Paul W. Gooch - Philosophy - 1996 - 332 pages
...fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight, The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts. These are only hints and guesses, Hints followed by guesses; and the rest Is prayer, observance,... | |
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For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time, The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight, The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning, Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all,... 
