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Quotes from The Hollow Men — T. S. Eliot

1888–1965 England

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This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

The Hollow Men (1925)

This is the dead land
This is cactus land.

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Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow.

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Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us — if at all — not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.

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Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion.

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We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar.

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Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death's dream kingdom
These do not appear:
There, the eyes are
Sunlight on a broken column
There, is a tree swinging
And voices are
In the wind's singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star.

The Hollow Men (1925)

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