Poetry Buff Desperately Needed

My son gave me the following sentence to see if I knew who wrote the poem, he even gave it as a multiple choice. I STILL don’t know it, though it is familiar. Any one else care to give it a shot??

‘…what we have loved, others will love.’

Is it, 1. Keats
2. Shelley {Percy B.)
3. Tennyson
4. Wordsworth (my guess)
5. Pope
I have until tomorrow to answer, ** HELP! ** Thanks!

And you guessed right!
It’s Wordsworth, from The Prelude.

Ooooh – can I play?

Who wrote the lines:
. . . Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.

I think that’s T.S. Eliot, but I can’t for the life of me think of where it’s from.

::::::::::::happy dancing:::::::::::::::** thanks SOooo much, Necros!!**

In the future, just put a line from a poem with quotes around it in a search engine box & youll have your answer :slight_smile:

I * did try that first, handy * and came up empty. I also tried ‘Ask Jeeves’ which showed you CAN ask, but you may not get an answer. HERE, I got the answer, and I’m STILL ;:::::::happy dancing!! ::::::::::::I even got to call DJ and tell him, and he was surprised that I could find it out so quickly. Ha! He’s against message boards and is forever telling me not to be here, but he had to eat his words TODAY!! Sweet! :smiley:

Except for the point,
the still point.
There would be no dance,
and there is only the dance.
–T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

oops, sorry - i thought the title was “poetry in the buff”

Very good, bibliophage. But the actual poem is Burnt Norton.

I guess nobody else wants to play.