“Signs are taken for wonders. “We would see a sign!”
The word within a word, unable to speak a word,
Swaddled with darkness.”

— T.S. Eliot , book Poems

"Gerontion"
Poems (1920)

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The word within a word, unable to speak a word,
Swaddled with darkness.”