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Here is Belladonna, the Lady of the Rocks,
The lady of situations.
The Waste Land (1922)
Even among these rocks,
Our peace in His will.
Ash-Wednesday (1930)
When lovely woman stoops to folly and
Paces about her room again, alone,
She smoothes her hair with automatic hand,
And puts a record on the gramophone.
The Waste Land (1922)
A dangerous person to disagree with.
No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest—for it is a part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
It is not the "greatness," the intensity, of the emotions, the components, but the intensity of the artistic process, the pressure, so to speak, under which the fusion takes place, that counts.
Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)
Speech without word and
Word of no speech
Grace to the Mother
For the Garden
Where all love ends.
Ash-Wednesday (1930)
I should be glad of another death.
I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing,
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
The Waste Land (1922)
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
The Waste Land (1922)
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker...
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1917)
And indeed there will be time
To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?”
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
The single Rose
Is now the Garden
Where all loves end.
Ash-Wednesday (1930)
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices
In the lost lilac and the lost sea voices
And the weak spirit quickens to rebel
For the bent golden-rod and the lost sea smell.
Ash-Wednesday (1930)
Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time;
He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession.
He was famous in proverb and famous in rhyme
A long while before Queen Victoria's accession.
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)
They constantly try to escape
From the darkness outside and within
By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.
But the man that is shall shadow
The man that pretends to be.
Choruses from The Rock (1934)
We may say that religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and the supernatural life have a conformity to each other which neither has with the mechanistic life.
The Idea of a Christian Society (1939)
Some one said: "The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did." Precisely, and they are that which we know.
Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)
Our age is an age of moderate virtue
And moderate vice
Choruses from The Rock (1934)