“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. Eliot 270
20th century English author 1888–1965Related quotes
“Perhaps I’m tired of waiting for something I may never find.”
Source: Sweet Persuasion
"The Goat Paths", line 89, in Collected Poems (London: Macmillan, 1954) p. 6.
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.
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.”
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.”