“Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only.”

—  T.S. Eliot, book The Waste Land

Source: The Waste Land and Other Poems

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20th century English author 1888–1965

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