They awarded Eliot the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature, “for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry”. Considered one of the 20th century’s major poets, he is a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry.
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.
― T.S. Eliot
In this quote, he embellishes how we are in search of who we are and during this search; we find out many things about ourselves and the world.
Very often, what we are in search of is already in front of our eyes. The book Acres of Diamonds elicits that truth, as it is brought to mind with this quote.
The impactful part of this quote is in the last words of how we now understand it for the first time. Without the exploration and education gathered through that sweat and tears, we may never have understood ourselves or that place where we started.
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