T. S. Eliot on Moment
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“Every moment is a fresh beginning.”
“Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?”
“I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker...”
“The knowledge imposes a pattern, and falsifies, For the pattern is new in every moment And every moment is a new and shocking Valuation of all we have been.”
“But only in time can the moment in the rose-garden, The moment in the arbour where the rain beat, The moment in the draughty church at smokefall Be remembered; involved with past and future.”
“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, but you are the music While the music lasts.”