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The Wasteland and other poems
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What Members Thought

Melissa
Mar 10, 2023 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Much of this I did not understand, but when I did get a glimpse of the message, it was very powerful.

Quotes:
What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow...

Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
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.

His vanity requires no response, And makes a welcome of indifference.

Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings k
...more
J Simpson
Jun 30, 2009 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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T. S. Eliot periodically blows my mind and saves my life. I should've been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floor of silent seas. ...more
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