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The Waste Land
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"The Waste Land" Quotes

A modernist poem exploring the fragmented nature of contemporary life and the search for spiritual meaning.

Quotes

April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.

T.S. Eliot

seasonsrenewal

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

T.S. Eliot

feardespair

A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water.

T.S. Eliot

desolationisolation

What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish?

T.S. Eliot

introspectionexistentialism

I had not thought death had undone so many.

T.S. Eliot

deathsorrow

HURRY UP PLEASE IT’S TIME

T.S. Eliot

impatienceurgency

I will tell you what I know.

T.S. Eliot

knowledgecommunication

These fragments I have shored against my ruins.

T.S. Eliot

resilienceperseverance

I can connect Nothing with nothing.

T.S. Eliot

disconnectionconfusion

Weialala leia Wallala leialala

T.S. Eliot

sorrowhopelessness