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  • In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing

    1922 The Waste Land, pt.5,'What the Thunder Said'.
  • And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you I will show you fear in a handful of dust

    Morning   Fear   Dust  
    The Waste Land l. 25 (1922)
  • [On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.

    Land   Honor   Criticism  
    Quoted in The Waste Land, ed. Valerie Eliot (1971)
  • I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

    Reading   Winter   Night  
    The Waste Land l. 17 (1922)
  • Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted.

    Land   Broken   Doe  
  • We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

    Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)
  • Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

    1929 Dante.
  • Dayodhuam: I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

    Thinking   Keys   Doors  
    The Waste Land l. 412 (1922)
  • We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of God… Among the tribes our creed could be only like the desert grass – a beautiful swift seeming of spring; which, after a day’s heat, fell dusty.

    T. E. Lawrence (2013). “Seven Pillars of Wisdom”, p.338, Black House Publishing Ltd
  • He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience.

    1922 The Waste Land, pt.5,'What the Thunder Said'.
  • I can't help seeing 'Waste Land' as the third in a triptych with my earlier films 'Devil's Playground' and 'Blindsight,' and not least in the awe and gratitude I feel for the group of people who were courageous enough to share their stories with us - and to live lives so rich in inspiration for us all.

  • What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness.

    War   Thinking   Land  
  • In the mountains, there you feel free.

    The Waste Land l. 17 (1922)
  • I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

    The Waste Land l. 25 (1922)
  • You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl.' —Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence. Od' und leer das Meer.

    Girl   Heart   Eye  
    T.S. Eliot “My Own Wasteland”, Lisa Lee
  • I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success, The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam's scheme of things. "The thing is," I said finally, "he won the Nobel Prize." "Well," she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, "I'm not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat."

    Beautiful   Mother   Land  
    "Writing Home". Book by Alan Bennett, 1994.
  • A waste land lit by holy candles.

    Land   History   Waste  
    Sean O'Casey (1975). “The Letters of Sean O'Casey: 1942-54”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
  • For you know only a heap of broken images

    The Waste Land l. 21 (1922)
  • April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

    Memories   Spring   Rain  
    The Waste Land l. 1 (1922)
  • These fragments I have shored against my ruins

    Age   Ruins   Nostalgia  
    The Waste Land l. 431 (1922)
  • 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. Only There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

    Morning   Fear   Rocks  
    The Waste Land l. 25 (1922)
  • The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.

    Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)
  • My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 'I never know what you are thinking. Think.

    Night   Thinking   Nerves  
    T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.56, Faber & Faber
  • A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.

    Bridges   Crowds   London  
    The Waste Land l. 60 (1922).
  • Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

    Thinking   Keys   Prison  
    The Waste Land l. 412 (1922)
  • Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman -But who is that on the other side of you?

    Men   White   Together  
    Waste Land (1922) pt. 5
  • I can connect Nothing with nothing

    T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses”, p.398, Faber & Faber
  • Someone once said that "The Waste Land" was a scum of poetry floating on a sea of footnotes. That resonated with me, because that's kind of what I was doing lyrically for a while. I was being very referential in a way. I would drop in these little phrases or ideas that were sort of portholes into a whole bigger realm of thought or whatever, that would work within the song, but that you could also poke through into a bigger discussion.

    Song   Land   Ideas  
    "Ted Leo and Ben Arthur Discuss Carly Simon, Joyce Carl Oates, and the Touring Grind". Interview with Ben Arthur, logger.believermag.com. June 26, 2016.
  • I find titles the hardest thing. I was worried that 'Waste Land' was too much of a downer. For me, 'The Crash Reel' confronts what the film is about: it's not just about the reality of a crash, it's about the extremity we all face, and what happens when life crashes on you.

    Reality   Land   Titles  
  • Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow

    Winter   Snow   Covering  
    The Waste Land l. 5 (1922)
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