The Waste Land

By

T. S. Eliot

QUOTATION: He, the young man carbuncular, arrives,...
ATTRIBUTION: T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888–1965), U.S.-born—British poet, critic. The Waste Land, “The Fire Sermon.”

QUOTATION: To Carthage then I came
ATTRIBUTION: T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888–1965), Anglo-American critic, poet. The Waste Land (l. 307).

QUOTATION: O Lord Thou pluckest
burning
ATTRIBUTION: T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888–1965), Anglo-American critic, poet. The Waste Land (l. 310–311).

QUOTATION: I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
ATTRIBUTION: T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888–1965), Anglo-American poet, critic. The Waste Land, pt. 1, “The Burial of the Dead,” (1922).

QUOTATION: Only at nightfall, aethereal rumours
Revive for a moment a broken Coriolanus
ATTRIBUTION: T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888–1965), Anglo-American critic, poet. The Waste Land (l. 416–417).

QUOTATION: These fragments I have shored against my ruins.
ATTRIBUTION: T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888–1965), Anglo-American poet, critic. The Waste Land, pt. 5: “What the Thunder Said,” (1922).

QUOTATION: Here is no water but only rock
ATTRIBUTION: T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888–1965), Anglo-American critic, poet. The Waste Land (l. 331).

QUOTATION: The river sweats
Oil and tar
The barges drift
With the turning tide
ATTRIBUTION: T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888–1965), Anglo-American critic, poet. The Waste Land (l. 266–269).

QUOTATION: In the mountains, there you feel free.
ATTRIBUTION: T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888–1965), Anglo-American critic, poet. The Waste Land (l. 17).

QUOTATION: With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.
ATTRIBUTION: T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888–1965), Anglo-American critic, poet. The Waste Land (l. 68).

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