Collected Poems, 1909-1962 | 
Book 55/100 of the year.
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"You dozed, and watched the night revealing the thousand sordid images of which your soul was constituted; they flickered against the ceiling" - Preludes
"You dozed, and watched the night revealing the thousand sordid images of which your soul was constituted; they flickered against the ceiling" - Preludes
#PoetryMatters #Tea from TS Eliot‘s Prufrock
"And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea."
Half nine in the morning and already the day is full-on Prufrock.
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis on this date in 1888.Moved to England as a young man , became a British citizen in 1927.Wrote some great poems too.
#marchInBooks #springbooks
From The waste Land
“You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;
“They called me the hyacinth girl.”
Yet when we came back , late , from the hyacinth garden,
Your arms full , and your hair wet, I could not speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither living nor dead , and I knew nothing,
Looking into the heart of light , the silence.
Oed‘ und leer das Meer.
Love the smell of hyacinths ❤️
#QuotsyFeb18 #Voice
from Prufrock :
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us , and we drown.
TS Eliot
#QuotsyJan18 #crisis @TK-421 from Prufrock: ....”Should I, After tea & cakes & ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis ?
But though I have wept & fasted, wept & prayed,
Though I have seen my head( grown slightly bald)
brought in upon a platter
I am no Prophet- & here‘s no great matter
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker
I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat & snicker
And in short, I was afraid. “
Revisiting poetry. I'm hoping it will put me on a path to deep sleep and vivid dreams.
