“And if all that is meaningless, I want to be cured
Of a craving for something I cannot find And of the shame of never finding it.”
Source: The Cocktail Party
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T.S. Eliot270
20th century English author 1888–1965Related quotes
“Perhaps I’m tired of waiting for something I may never find.”
Maya Banks (1964) Author
Source: Sweet Persuasion
James Stephens (1882–1950) Irish writer
"The Goat Paths", line 89, in Collected Poems (London: Macmillan, 1954) p. 6.
Edward Dyer (1543–1607) courtier
MS. Rawl 85 (1588), p. 17. A very similar but anonymous copy is in the British Museum. Additional MS. 15225, p. 85. And there is an imitation in J. Sylvester’s Works, p. 651, Hannah, Courtly Poets. Compare:
My mind to me a kingdom is;
Such perfect joy therein I find,
As far exceeds all earthly bliss
That God and Nature hath assigned.
Though much I want that most
would have,
Yet still my mind forbids to crave.
Byrd: Psalmes, Sonnets, etc. 1588.
My mind to me an empire is,
While grace affordeth health.
Robert Southwell (1560–1595), Loo Home.
"Mens regnum bona possidet" (translated as "A good mind possesses a kingdom"), Seneca, Thyestes, ii. 380.
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550–1604) English peer and courtier of the Elizabethan era
Attributed to Oxford by May, but also published as the work of Edward Dyer.
Poems, Attributed
“I danced on the Sabbath
And I cured the lame;
The holy people
Said it was a shame.”
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) British musician and poet
Lord of the Dance (1963)
Context: I danced on the Sabbath
And I cured the lame;
The holy people
Said it was a shame.
They whipped and they stripped
And they hung me on high,
And they left me there
On a Cross to die.
“I crave time in all its duration, and I
want to be myself unconditionally.”
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher