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April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
The Waste Land (1922)
Here is Belladonna, the Lady of the Rocks,
The lady of situations.
The Waste Land (1922)
When lovely woman stoops to folly and
Paces about her room again, alone,
She smoothes her hair with automatic hand,
And puts a record on the gramophone.
The Waste Land (1922)
I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing,
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
The Waste Land (1922)
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
The Waste Land (1922)
In this decayed hole among the mountains
In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing
Over the tumbled graves, about the chapel
There is the empty chapel, only the wind's home.
The Waste Land (1922)
Unreal city,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.
The Waste Land (1922)
O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag—
It's so elegant
So intelligent
The Waste Land (1922)
I have heard the key
Turn in the door once and turn once only
We think of the key, each in his prison
Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.
The Waste Land (1922)
There is shadow under this red rock
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
The Waste Land (1922)
Who is the third who walks always beside you
When I count, there are only you and I together
But when I look ahead up the white road
There is always another one walking beside you
The Waste Land (1922)