More from Thomas Stearns Eliot

  1. You neglect and belittle the desert. The desert is not remote in southern tropics The desert is not only around the corner, The desert is s…
  2. The world turns and the world changes, But one thing does not change. In all of my years, one thing does not change, However you disguise i…
  3. Where the bricks are fallen We will build with new stone Where the beams are rotten We will build with new timbers Where the word is unspok…
  4. The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder, Or irregular labour, which is not pleasant. I have trodden…
  5. What life have you, if you have not life together? There is not life that is not in community, And no community not lived in praise of GOD.
  6. O perpetual revolution of configured stars, O perpetual recurrence of determined seasons, O world of spring and autumn, birth and dying! Th…
  7. And now you live dispersed on ribbon roads, And no man knows or cares who is his neighbor Unless his neighbor makes too much disturbance, B…
  8. The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven, The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit.

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