eric | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 19 2006 | favorites, literature, poetry, T.S. Eliot"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot has long been one of my favorite poems.
For some reason, I brought it up while wakeboarding by mentioning a quote from it about choice. That was enough to make me want to go read it again. Here it is, in all its glory.
Quoted: Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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