"The moments of happiness — not the sense of well-being, Fruition, fulfilment, security or affecton, Or even a very good dinner, but the sudden illumination — We had the experience but missed the meaning, And approach to the meaning restores the experience In a different form, beyond any meaning We can assign to happiness. I have said before That the past experience revived in the meaning Is not the experience of one life only But of many generations — not forgetting Something that is probably quite ineffable"
Four Quartets

January 1, 1970

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