Who then devised the torment? Love
Love is the unfamiliar name
Behind the hands that wove
The intolerable shirt of flame
Which human power cannot remove
We only live, only suspire
Consumed by either fire or fire
Notes: An extract of the poem ‘Little Gidding (No. 4 of ‘Four Quartets’)’ by TS Eliot. Performed by Chris Barrie as Richard Burton.