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T. S. Eliot on Hope

1888–1965 England

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The only hope, or else despair
Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre —
To be redeemed from fire by fire.

Because I do not hope to turn again
Because I do not hope
Because I do not hope to turn
Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope
I no longer strive to strive towards such things
(Why should the agèd eagle stretch its wings?)
Why should I mourn
The vanished power of the usual reign?

Ash-Wednesday (1930)

Although I do not hope to turn again
Although I do not hope
Although I do not hope to turn

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love,
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith
But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought:
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

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