The Waste Land Quotes

“The lady of situations.”
― T.S. Eliot

“That one can understand The Waste Land without even trying is consoling news for all students of literature.”
― Terry Eagleton, How to Read Literature

“Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images,”
― T.S. Eliot The Waste Land

“Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;”
― T.S. Eliot

“Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think”
― T.S. Eliot

“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.”
― TS Eliot