At the still point,
there the dance is.
— T. S. Eliot
there the dance is.
— T. S. Eliot
Humphrey Carpenter in The Inklings, his book on the Christian writers J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Charles Williams, says that
“Eliot by his own admission took the ‘still point of the turning world’ in Burnt Norton from the Fool in Williams’s The Greater Trumps.”
— The Inklings, Ballantine Books, 1981, p. 106
Today’s Birthdays: …. Actress-dancer Leslie Caron is 76…. Movie director Sydney Pollack is 73…. Dancer-choreographer Twyla Tharp is 66. –AP, “Today in History,” July 1, 2007
The Diamond
in the Mandorla