Burnt Norton
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Summary
Burnt Norton, the first of T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, opens with verses on time and speaks of the still point of the turning world. Mike reads it beside Master Dogen’s Uji and finds the verses remarkably similar to Nagarjuna; Eliot is known to have had an interest in Buddhism.
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Mention
In “Burnt Norton”, where he says – at the still point of the turning world
1Uji 1: Time Is the Present Winter 2004 — Uji
Now, those verses are remarkably similar to Nagarjuna. And it’s known that T. S. Eliot had an interest in Buddhism.
2Uji 1: The Depth of the Present Summer 2007 — Uji
which he alludes to in the opening stanza of the first of his Four Quartets, “Burnt Norton”
3The Concept of Now in Dogen’s Philosophy Shobogenzo · Uji
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The still point of a turning world.
Kuge 2: Coolness in the Centre of Fire Winter 2007 — Kuge