“Signs are taken for wonders. “We would see a sign!””
T.S. Eliot book Poems
The word within a word, unable to speak a word,
Swaddled with darkness.
"Gerontion"
Poems (1920)
“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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