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For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time, The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight, The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning Or the waterfall, or music heard so

For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time, The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight, The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts

T. S. Eliot
Winter, Waterfalls, Lasts
Four Quartets "The Dry Salvages" pt. 5 (1941)

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

T. S. Eliot
Reading, Winter, Night
The Waste Land l. 17 (1922)

The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet And newspapers from vacant lots; The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-pots, And at the corner of the street A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the lighting of the lamps.

T. S. Eliot
Lonely, Horse, Winter
Prufrock (1917) "Preludes"

Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow

T. S. Eliot
Winter, Snow, Covering
The Waste Land l. 5 (1922)

The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways.

T. S. Eliot
Food, Winter, Smell
"Preludes" l. 1 (1917)

A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.

T. S. Eliot
Time, Winter, Journey
"Journey of the Magi" l. 1 (1927)

In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings.

T. S. Eliot
Winter, Men, Broken
T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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