And roses suit you so

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What she had now was not for her possessing. She was the Madonna of the Cave, Demeter who fashions living things and sends them out into the light. All she had done, and had still to do, would work to accomplish her own loss . . . to make him less a part of her, and more his own. Already the new claimants were waiting.

—Mary Renault, Return to Night (1947)

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"At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance."

Burnt Norton, T.S. Eliot, 1944