description: Published in the fiery days of WW II, Four Quartets stands as a testament to the power of poetry amid the chaos of the time. Let the words speak for themselves: "The dove descending breaks the air/With flame of incandescent terror/Of which the tongues declare/The only discharge from sin &amp; error/The only hope, or the despair/Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre--/To be redeemed from fire by fire./Who then devised this torment?/Love/Love is the unfamiliar Name/Behind the hands that wave/The intolerable shirt of flame/Which human power cannot remove./We only live, only suspire/Consumed by either fire or fire."
language: English
title: T. S. Eliot Reading Four Quartets
titlecomplete: T. S. Eliot Reading Four Quartets
genres: 20th Century, Literature, American, Classics, Philosophy, Christianity, Nobel Prize, Fiction, Poetry, British Literature
ratings_count: 17170
series: Four Quartets
publisher: HarperAudio