16.8.08

How unpleasant to meet Mr Eliot!

How unpleasant to meet Mr Eliot!
With his features of clerical cut,
And his brow so grim
And his mouth so prim
And his conversation, so nicely
Restricted to What Precisely
And If and Perhaps and But.
Collected Poems (1936) Five-Finger Exercises

Agatha! Mary! come!
The clock has stopped in the dark!
The Family Reunion (1939) pt. 2, sc. 3

Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
Four Quartets, Burnt Norton (1936) pt. 1

Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1917)

Source: Oxford Dict. of Quotation


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