T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets

i think that the idea of combining all of these poems in one understanding is really reflective of what we have learned about T.S. Eliot during class. His quote about ceasing exploration and finding your self arriving where you first begun is such an interesting element, an i think it can be seen in the first poem Burnt Norton

Time present and time past

Are both perhaps present in time future

And time future contained in time past.

If all time is eternally present

All time is unredeemable.

i think he is right about knowing that time cannot even factor into our lives, which to me relates to the idea of exploration being something that we cannot attain, just as time is not something we can attain, ultimately we just arrive where we were and see it for the first time, just as time goes by but we are still in the time present, we cannot gain the knowledge that we want to acquire a lot of the the times for we end up finding our selves just as clueless and thirsty as we began, and time may gain wisdom, but ultimately i think that wisdom will just prove to us our foolishness and lack of understanding, maybe that is what it takes to be truly wise, is to know that you know nothing time and time again.