T. S. Eliot Quotes About Lying
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Between the vision and the act lies the shadow.
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The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre- To be redeemed from fire by fire. Who then devised the torment? Love. Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. We only live, only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire.
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O father, father Gone from us, lost to us, The church lies bereft, Alone, Desecrated, desolated. And the heathen shall build On the ruins Their world without God. I see it. I see it.
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Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.
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The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre - To be redeemed from fire by fire.
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After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.
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To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.
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