Have you spotted any mystical elements in T.S. Eliot’s poetry? 

Four Quartets, a set of four poems published in 1943, is one of Eliot’s biggest masterpieces and poetic meditations.

Time present and time past

Are both perhaps present in time future,

And time future contained in time past.

If all time is eternally present

All time is unredeemable.

What might have been is an abstraction

Remaining a perpetual possibility

Only in a world of speculation.

What might have been and what has been

Point to one end, which is always present.

Footfalls echo in the memory

Down the passage which we did not take

Towards the door we never opened

Into the rose-garden.

My words echo

Thus, in your mind.“

– T.S. Eliot – Burnt Norton

Just like Rumi, Eliot used mystical images to describe his worldview.
Eliot’s world is undoubtedly the world Sufis lived in – the present, for the past is already over and the future is always uncertain.

Moving without pressure, over the dead leaves,
In the autumn heat, through the vibrant air,
And the bird called, in response to
The unheard music hidden in the shrubbery,
And the unseen eyebeam crossed, for the roses
Had the look of flowers that are looked at.“

Eliot’s movement can be linked with Rumi’s dance, the mystic who dances to the rhythm of nature and life. Unheard music is the music only heard by the ones who recognize the dance, “without pressure”.

Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind
Cannot bear very much reality.
Time past and time future
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.

Words move, music moves
Only in time; but that which is only living
Can only die.
Words, after speech, reach Into the silence.
Only by the form, the pattern,
Can words or music reach
The stillness, as a Chinese jar still
Moves perpetually in its stillness.“