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Quotes from Poems — T. S. Eliot

1888–1965 England

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Signs are taken for wonders. "We would see a sign!"
The word within a word, unable to speak a word,
Swaddled with darkness.

Poems (1920)

Weave the wind. I have no ghosts,
An old man in a draughty house
Under a windy knob.

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Webster was much possessed by death
And saw the skull beneath the skin

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Here I am, an old man in a dry month,
Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.

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Grishkin is nice: her
Russian eye is underlined for emphasis;
Uncorseted, her friendly bust
Gives promise of pneumatic bliss.

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The broad-backed hippopotamus
Rests on his belly in the mud;
Although he seems so firm to us
He is merely flesh and blood.

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After such knowledge, what forgiveness?

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Think
Neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices
Are fathered by our heroism. Virtues
Are forced upon us by our impudent crimes.
These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree.

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Where are the eagles and the trumpets?
Buried beneath some snow-deep Alps.
Over buttered scones and crumpets
Weeping, weeping multitudes
Droop in a hundred A.B.C.'s

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so the countess passed on until she came through the little park, where Niobe presented her with a cabinet, and so departed.

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Attribution

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