It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.
T. S. EliotNot less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.
T. S. Eliot