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Between the vision and the act lies the shadow.

Between the vision and the act lies the shadow.

T. S. Eliot
Lying, Vision, Shadow

To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.

T. S. Eliot
Lying, Knowledge, Desire

Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.

T. S. Eliot
Lying, Adequacy, Emotion

The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre - To be redeemed from fire by fire.

T. S. Eliot
Hope, Lying, Fire
T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre- To be redeemed from fire by fire. Who then devised the torment? Love. Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. We only live, only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire.

T. S. Eliot
Lying, Love Is, Fire
Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 4 (1942)

O father, father Gone from us, lost to us, The church lies bereft, Alone, Desecrated, desolated. And the heathen shall build On the ruins Their world without God. I see it. I see it.

T. S. Eliot
Lying, Father, Church
T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.228, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.

T. S. Eliot
Lying, Ambition, Knowledge
"Gerontion" l. 33 (1920)

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