Quote #50
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow
More from Thomas Stearns Eliot
- 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 holl…
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- We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw.
- Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow
- This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.
- Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no …
- These fragments I have shored against my ruins Why then Ile fit you. Hieronymo's mad againe. Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata. Shantih shantih sha…
- Because I do not hope to know The infirm glory of the positive hour Because I do not think Because I know I shall not know The one veritabl…