Because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place And what is actual is actual only for one time And only for one place I re… - T. S. Eliot

Because I know that time is always time

And place is always and only place...

What might have been and 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...

What have we to do but stand with empty hands and palms turned upwards in an age which advances progressively backwards?

I grow old … I grow old …I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
Shall I part my hair behind?
Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.