{"id":1317,"date":"2009-08-27T15:40:59","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T19:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2009-08-28T01:54:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T05:54:22","slug":"two-good-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/two-good-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Good Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I rarely post material created by other people on this blog because it’s my space, not theirs. I usually use my tumblr blog<\/a> for posting clips of others’ works. However, I’m making an exception for this post because T.S. Eliot is one of my favorite poets and I almost bought the Tropic of Cancer a week ago. Now I have to!<\/p>\n

“The Rock”<\/p>\n

\nThe endless cycle of idea and action,
\nEndless invention, endless experiment,
\nBrings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
\nKnowledge of speech, but not of silence;
\nKnowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.
\nAll our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,
\nAll our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
\nBut nearness to death no nearer to GOD.
\nWhere is the Life we have lost in living?
\nWhere is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
\nWhere is the knowledge we have lost in information?
\nThe cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
\nBring us farther from GOD and nearer to the Dust.<\/p>\n

~ T.S. Eliot, “The Rock”
\nFound via Caterina.net<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Excerpt from Tropic of Cancer<\/p>\n

\nThere is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books. Nobody, so far as I can see, is making use of those elements in the air which gives direction and motivation to our lives. Only the killers seem to be extracting from life some satisfactory measure of what they are putting into it. The age demands violence, but we are getting only abortive explosions. Revolutions are nipped in the bud, or else succeed too quickly. Passion is quickly exhausted. Men fall back on ideas, comme d\u2019habitude. Nothing is proposed that can last more than twenty-four hours. We are living a million lives in the space of a generation. In the study of entomology, or of deep sea life, or cellular activity we derive more\u2026<\/p>\n

~ Henry Miller
\nFound via been thinking…<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I rarely post material created by other people on this blog because it’s my space, not theirs. I usually use my tumblr blog for posting clips of others’ works. However, I’m making an exception for this post because T.S. Eliot is one of my favorite poets and I almost bought the Tropic of Cancer a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1330,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions\/1330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}