More from Thomas Stearns Eliot

  1. Wherever a saint has dwelt, wherever a martyr has given his blood for the blood of Christ, There is holy ground, and the sanctity shall not…
  2. Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men tighte…
  3. O father, father Gone from us, lost to us, The church lies bereft, Alone, Desecrated, desolated. And the heathen shall build On the ruins T…
  4. All that I can hope to make you understand Is only events: not what has happened. And people to whom nothing has ever happened Cannot under…
  5. We praise thee, O God, for thy glory displayed in all the creatures of the earth, In the snow, in the rain, in the wind, in the storm, in a…
  6. You are all people To whom has happened, at most a continual impact Of external events. You have gone through life in sleep. Never woken to…
  7. In the small circle of pain within the skull You still shall tramp and tread one endless round Of thought, to justify your action to yourse…
  8. This is what matters, but it is unspeakable. Untranslatable: I talk in general terms Because the particular has no language.

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