 What might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation. What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present.  Culture and Social Theory - Sayfa xxiAaron Bernard Wildavsky tarafından - 324 sayfaSınırlı önizleme - Bu kitap hakkında
 | 1921 - 1326 sayfa
...might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation. What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. Footfalls echo in the memory Down the pansage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1971 - 408 sayfa
...might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation. 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... | |
 | John Willinsky - 1998 - 330 sayfa
...education: "Yet all evaluation— including a delight in Eliot's poetty despite his and who I was not to be: "What might have been and what has been / Point to one end, which is always ptesent." Against this histotical and global backdtop of a wotld imagined as empite and tace, I seek... | |
 | Edward S. Casey - 2000 - 396 sayfa
...the past as it comes to bear on the present and on the future. Hence we must modify Eliot's formula: "What might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present." 36 Rather: what might be and what has been point to one end, which is the future as enlivened in the... | |
 | Jim Garrison - 2000 - 417 sayfa
...might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation. 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... | |
 | Talane Miedaner - 2000 - 306 sayfa
...love to do. 16. PERFECT THE PRESENT "Paradise is where I am. " VOLTAIRE "Time fast and time future What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. " TS ELIOT If you have the "not enough" conversation — not enough money, not enough time, not enough... | |
 | Claudia Franken - 2000 - 404 sayfa
...possibility/ Only in a world of speculation" as in TS Eliot's "Burnt Norton" (1935)? Did, for Stein, too, "[w]hat might have been and what has been/ Point to one end, which is always present"? In The Making of Americans, the words if might have been indicate inhibitions rather than former probabilities... | |
 | John Xiros Cooper - 2000 - 378 sayfa
...eternally present / All time is unredeemable" is subtly mitigated by the lines that closely follow: "What might have been and what has been / Point to one end, which is always present" (171). The music of bird song as metaphor for various states of the human soul is further modulated... | |
 | 230 sayfa
...might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation. What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. ("Burnt Norton," I, lines 6-10) The negativity comes through the cadence and tone of the verse: the... | |
 | August J. Nigro - 2000 - 204 sayfa
...the might-have-been than might have been. Here, TS Eliot is illuminating: Time past and time future What might have been and what has been Point to one end. which is always present.9 Whatever occurred in the past that is known, whatever might have occurred that is not known,... | |
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