“All our knowledge brings us nearer to death,But nearness to death no nearer to God.Where
“All our knowledge brings us nearer to death,But nearness to death no nearer to God.Where is the Life we have lost in living?Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuriesBrings us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.”~ T.S. Eliot[The World of Wikipedia - Jon Robson] • T.S. Eliot, the 1948 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, is one of the giants of modern literature, highly distinguished as a poet, literary critic, dramatist, and editor and publisher. In 1910 and 1911, while still a college student, he wrote “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and other poems that are landmarks in the history of literature. In these college poems, Eliot articulated distinctly modern themes in forms that were both a striking development of and a marked departure from those of 19th-century poetry. More: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/t-s-eliot • Jon Robson: “This map aims to highlights the journey of the first time reader. It highlights the technical problems I see; the social problems amongst our communities. The obstacles our readers must overcome to access and edit our knowledge. If you start in the bottom left corner - The Land of the Reader you may find some familiar paths to the sum of all human knowledge.” More: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_of_Wikipedia_by_Jon_Robson.png -- source link
#jon robson#wikipedia#ts eliot#poetry#knowledge#wisdom#information