His earthy informality instantly anchors the philosophy Words flow like water in TS Eliot's Four Quartets, shimmering with allusion, swirling and eddying with the ideas and fractured philosophies of a poet at the height of his powers. It's fitting that he chose Heraclitus to supply the epigraph, the pre-Socratic philosopher who, like Eliot towards the end of his life, believed that life was in constant flux, famously…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:33AM on November 26, 2021