The Dry Salvages is one of the four poems in T.S. Eliot's 'Four Quartets'. The four poems in part explore the theme that time destroys but also preserves: “ Time present and time past.”
“ The river is within us, the sea is all about us;
The sea is the land's edge also, the granite,
Into which it reaches, the beaches where it tosses
Its hints of earlier and other creation:”
T.S Eliot, excerpt from 'The Dry Salvages'.
