Eliot

Burial of the Dead

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

…‘You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;/They called me the hyacinth girl’/-Yet when we came back, late, from the hyacinth garden,/Your arms full and your hair wet, I could not/Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither/Living nor dead, and I knew nothing,/Looking into the heart of light, the silence.

…Here is Belladonna, the Lady of the Rocks, The lady of situations.

TS Eliot The Wasteland

 

The moment of the rose and the moment of the yew-tree/are of equal duration.

TS Eliot, Little Gidding V