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Quotes from Ash-Wednesday — T. S. Eliot

1888–1965 England

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Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only
The wind will listen.

Ash-Wednesday (1930)

This is the time of tension between dying and birth
The place of solitude where three dreams cross
Between blue rocks.

Ash-Wednesday (1930)

Where shall the word be found, where will the word
Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.

Ash-Wednesday (1930)

Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree
In the cool of the day.

Ash-Wednesday (1930)

Redeem
The time. Redeem
The unread vision in the higher dream
While jewelled unicorns draw by the gilded hearse.

Ash-Wednesday (1930)

Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled
About the centre of the silent Word.

Ash-Wednesday (1930)

Even among these rocks,
Our peace in His will.

Ash-Wednesday (1930)

Speech without word and
Word of no speech
Grace to the Mother
For the Garden
Where all love ends.

Ash-Wednesday (1930)

The single Rose
Is now the Garden
Where all loves end.

Ash-Wednesday (1930)

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)

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)

Let these words answer
For what is done, not to be done again
May the judgement not be too heavy upon us

Ash-Wednesday (1930)

Because I cannot hope to turn again
Consequently I rejoice, having to construct something
Upon which to rejoice

Ash-Wednesday (1930)

Terminate torment
Of love unsatisfied
The greater torment
Of love satisfied.

Ash-Wednesday (1930)

Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death
Pray for us now and at the hour of our death.

Ash-Wednesday (1930)

Sister, mother
And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea,
Suffer me not to be separated
And let my cry come unto Thee.

Ash-Wednesday (1930)

Because I do not hope to know
The infirm glory of the positive hour
Because I do not think
Because I know I shall not know
The one veritable transitory power
Because I cannot drink
There, where trees flower, and springs flow, for there is nothing again

Ash-Wednesday (1930)

Blown hair is sweet, brown hair over the mouth blown,
Lilac and brown hair;
Distraction, music of the flute, stops and steps of the mind over the third stair,
Fading, fading; strength beyond hope and despair
Climbing the third stair.

Ash-Wednesday (1930)

This is the land which ye
Shall divide by lot. And neither division nor unity
Matters. This is the land. We have our inheritance.

Ash-Wednesday (1930)

Blessed sister, holy mother, spirit of the fountain, spirit of the garden,
Suffer us not to mock ourselves with falsehood
Teach us to care and not to care

Ash-Wednesday (1930)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: T. S. Eliot (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.