Now that lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room And twists one in her fingers while she talks. "Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know What life is, you who hold it in your hands"; (slowly twisting the lilac stalks) "You let it flow from you, you let it flow, And youth is cruel, and has no remorse And smiles at situations which it cannot see." I smile, of course, And go on drinking tea.
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ELIOT We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test o... T.S. ELIOT Human kind cannot bear much reality. T.S. ELIOT If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being ca... T.S. ELIOT In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause. T.S. ELIOT To hear the latest Pole / transmit the Preludes, through his hair and fingertips. T.S. ELIOT Friendship should be more than biting time can sever. T.S. ELIOT That corpse you planted last year in your garden, / Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year? T.S. ELIOT Whatever you do, don't whimper, but take the consequences. T.S. ELIOT No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence. T.S. ELIOT Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it. T.S. ELIOT I said to my soul be still, and wait without hope; for hope would be hope of the wrong thing; wait w... T.S. ELIOT When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except put up with it until the wind chan... T.S. ELIOT The highest form of treason: to do the right thing for the wrong reason. Murder in the Cathedral T.S. ELIOT Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. T.S. ELIOT Webster was much possessed by death / And saw the skull beneath the skin. T.S. ELIOT I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is fa... T.S. ELIOT The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. T.S. ELIOT There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. T.S. ELIOT When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to ... T.S. ELIOT For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afterno... T.S. ELIOT Do I dare Disturb the universe? T.S. ELIOT We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with s... T.S. ELIOT Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? T.S. ELIOT There is shadow under this red rock // (Come in under the shadow of this red rock) // And I will sho... T.S. ELIOT Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Prec... T.S. ELIOT We understand the ordinary business of living, We know how to work the machine T.S. ELIOT Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead. T.S. ELIOT It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it. T.S. ELIOT