Little Gidding

“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, unremembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in [...]

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Orthodoxy

“I have often had a fancy for writing a romance about an English yachtsman who slightly miscalculated his course and discovered England under the impression that it was a new island in the South Seas…
“What could be more delightful than to have in the same few minutes all the fascinating terrors of going abroad combined [...]

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Manalive!

“In [Orthodoxy], [Chesterton] starts off by describing a book he did not write, a romance about a man who sets off to discover a new land, but who unknowingly gets turned around and ends up re-discovering his own land, seeing it as if for the first time, where everything strikes him as being at once [...]

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dream

I thought I had it settled
The night before, raked
Into the pile of rotting reminiscence
(green and brown and lace-like), sealed
In an envelope
(addressed to a unit down Memory Lane), dropped
Through the slit of the bin
(was it the mail-? or the trash-?), stoppered
In a bottle
(So fragile, transparent), tossed
Into forgetful waves
(that just might reach the Isles of Amygdala), packaged
In [...]

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