"The Waste Land" and Other Poems

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  And indeed there will be time
  To wonder, 'Do I dare?' and, 'Do I dare?'
  Time to turn back and descend the stair,
  With a bald spot in the middle of my hair -
  (They will say: 'How his hair is growing thin!')
  My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin,
  My neckt ... (continue)

  And indeed there will be time
  To wonder, 'Do I dare?' and, 'Do I dare?'
  Time to turn back and descend the stair,
  With a bald spot in the middle of my hair -
  (They will say: 'How his hair is growing thin!')
  My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin,
  My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin -
  (They will say: 'But how his arms and legs are thin!')
  Do I dare
  Disturb the universe?
  In a minute there is time
  For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

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  Indie Nic said on Oct 24, 2007 | 1 feedback

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  Incipit

  "APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding
  Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
  Memory and desire, stirring
  Dull roots with spring rain."

  una pietra miliare nella poesia del '900: da leggere e rileggere.

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  Massimo Gienda said on Jul 16, 2007 | Add your feedback

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  There will be time, there will be time
  To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
  There will be time to murder and create,
  And time for all the works and days of hands
  That lift and drop a question on your plate;
  Time for you and time for me,
  And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
  And ... (continue)

  There will be time, there will be time
  To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
  There will be time to murder and create,
  And time for all the works and days of hands
  That lift and drop a question on your plate;
  Time for you and time for me,
  And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
  And for a hundred visions and revisions,
  Before the taking of a toast and tea.

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  Sfacteria said on Aug 7, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  "Gentile or Jew,
  O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
  Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome
  and tall as you...".

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  Elsastella said on Mar 8, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  Would it have been worth while,
  To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
  To have squeezed the universe into a ball
  To roll it towards some overwhelming question,
  To say:"I am Lazaurus, come from the dead,
  Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all"－
  ...
  這裡是 ... (continue)

  Would it have been worth while,
  To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
  To have squeezed the universe into a ball
  To roll it towards some overwhelming question,
  To say:"I am Lazaurus, come from the dead,
  Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all"－
  ...
  這裡是我最喜歡的地方－目前為止

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  Nazgoul said on May 22, 2008 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback
• ISBN-10: 057109712X
• ISBN-13: 9780571097128
• Publisher: Faber and Faber Ltd
• Pub date: Dec 31, 1971
• Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, Unbound, Others and eBook
• In other languages: other languages Libri Italiani

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