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Quotes from Prufrock and Other Observations — T. S. Eliot

1888–1965 England

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Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.

Prufrock and Other Observations (1917)

Stand on the highest pavement of the stair—
Lean on a garden urn—
Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.

Prufrock and Other Observations (1917)

Sometimes these cogitations still amaze
The troubled midnight and the noon’s repose.

Prufrock and Other Observations (1917)

And I must borrow every changing shape
To find expression.

Prufrock and Other Observations (1917)

One thinks of all the hands
That are raising dingy shades
In a thousand furnished rooms.

Prufrock and Other Observations (1917)

I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids
Sprouting despondently at area gates.

Prufrock and Other Observations (1917)

I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.

Prufrock and Other Observations (1917)

The readers of the Boston Evening Transcript
Sway in the wind like a field of ripe corn.

Prufrock and Other Observations (1917)

Upon the glazen shelves kept watch
Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith,
The army of unalterable law.

Prufrock and Other Observations (1917)

His laughter tinkled among the teacups.

Prufrock and Other Observations (1917)

He laughed like an irresponsible fœtus.

Prufrock and Other Observations (1917)

Twelve o'clock.
Along the reaches of the street
Held in lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Dissolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions.

Prufrock and Other Observations (1917)

Attribution

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