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T.S. Eliot

“I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.

Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering fuel in vacant lots.”

T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems
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The Waste Land and Other Poems The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
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