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Everyone's alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think they understand each other. And I'm sure they don't. Is that a delusion?

Everyone's alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think they understand each other. And I'm sure they don't. Is that a delusion?

T. S. Eliot
Loneliness, Thinking, Talking
T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.369, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

T. S. Eliot
Loneliness, Thinking, Poetry
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 122 (1917)

Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

T. S. Eliot
Loneliness, Mean, Way
T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.405, Faber & Faber

…Forgive us, O Lord, we acknowledge ourselves as type of the common man, Of the men and women who shut the door and sit by the fire; Who fear the blessing of God, the loneliness of the night of God, the surrender required, the deprivation inflicted; Who fear the injustice of men less than the justice of God; Who fear the hand at the window, the fire in the thatch, the fist in the tavern, the push into the canal, Less than we fear the love of God.

T. S. Eliot
Loneliness, Blessing, Night
T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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