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Eliot wrote in the first of his Four Quartets.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2024

Quartets then started to flow out of Riley.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2015

Until I received your note, my attempt to gear up for this had merely involved opening the Bhagavad-Gita for the first time since taking an undergraduate’s stab at understanding Four Quartets.

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2015

A version of this article appears in print on March 29, 2014, on page C1 of the with the headline: Quartets Are Giving Music Stands a Rest.

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2014

A friend of mine, also in honors, had managed never to read a word of Shakespeare; but she was a real expert on the Four Quartets.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath