Little Gidding; the place and the poem



You drop in on me as I return from a day at Little Gidding and I share a little of the place and the poem

If you’d like, on occasion, to encourage me with coffee and cake you can always do so here (no need of course) https://www.buymeacoffee.com/malcolmguite

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22 thoughts on “Little Gidding; the place and the poem”

  1. I think you made that so much warmer and more engaging by clearly being a bit “tired and emotional” as we used to say in newspapers. A full gamut of recharging oneself! I’ve always felt there’s so much to be said for witnessing a performance that the performer enjoyed. This is a classic! Thanks for doing it!

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  2. I can humbly echo sentiments already stated here: these videos have greatly enriched my life. They have re-ignited (pun intended) my love of pipes, and unveiled my love of poetry. My shelves, thanks to you, are now graced with Spenser and Coleridge, Yeats and Keats, Auden and Eliot, and you. You have even inspired me to take up my own pen, and scribble a few poor sonnets myself. Much thanks to you! God bless you and your words!

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  3. I haven’t read Four Quartets…….yet. But I have heard snippets of Little Gidding from friends of late and then to my surprise this arrives today! Thank you so much. As a lover of George MacDonald I wonder if there is any connection to Macdonald’s rose fire, so often featured in his stories?

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  4. Wonderful video. I always take a break from my seminary readings to enjoy a pipe and pint with your uploads.

    I recently received an Easton collection Yeats, Keats and Browning. But my education has failed in the poetry appreciation. Would you ever consider doing a crash course video on poetry?

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  5. The Eternal Present
    The universal wave function describes the position of every particle in the Universe at a particular moment in time.
    But it also describes every possible location of those particles at that instant.
    “All space and time is present” – Lawrence Krauss
    “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.
    What might have been is an abstraction
    Remaining a perpetual possibility
    Only in a world of speculation.”
    – T. S. Eliot Four Quartets

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  6. Good Morning 😊 Glad you back from your visit 💯 Always a pleasure to watch your channel 👍🏼 Appreciate your content and time to share with me 👏🏼👏🏼 God Bless you and your family 🙏🏽 Greetings From South Africa 🇿🇦

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  7. Thank you Malcolm for another fine video. They evoke a sense of calm within me. If it's any consolation, my study looks much like your own, complete with books and pipes lying around, lol. All the best sir.

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