Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be… — David F. Houston Copy Share Image
For me, it was a formative experience reading Eliot when I was younger. 'The Waste Land,' in particular. — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“As I look at it, a millionth part of a railway is worth fully as much as an acre of waste land… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“That one can understand The Waste Land without even trying is consoling news for all students of literature.” — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“We . . . go out into the Waste Land of Experts, each knowing so much about so little that he can… — G.M. Young Copy Share Image
We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of God…… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To have memory return is to find consciousness pervaded by a variety of identifications, all simultaneously composing and fragmenting a shared public… — Charles Altieri Copy Share Image
I can't help seeing 'Waste Land' as the third in a triptych with my earlier films 'Devil's Playground' and 'Blindsight,' and not… — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Here there was no shelter for his soul. There were no houses for a home. It was all a wilderness. It was… — Philip Dodd Copy Share Image
“For once I myself saw with my own eyes the Sibyl at Cumae hanging in a cage, and when the boys said… — Mark S. Smith Copy Share Image
“There is shadow under this red rock // (Come in under the shadow of this red rock) // And I will show… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Modern poets like Frost still want to make 'deep' statements; but they are also more sceptical of such high-sounding generalities than many… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“The common where we had walked the previous evening was a deserted tract of land, typical of Surrey, looking as if it… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“The best of the New Critics were masters of close readings. Cleanth Brooks, for example, in 1937 wrote a detailed commentary on… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
By 1990, the EPA had tallied up 32,645 sites of past chemical waste dumping in need of cleanup. Some of these are… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
“Shortly before five o’clock, Mayor Thorin woke from a terrible dream. In it, a bird with pink eyes had been cruising slowly… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Someone once said that "The Waste Land" was a scum of poetry floating on a sea of footnotes. That resonated with me,… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
“We turn now to T. S. Eliot," said Mr Varriale, my 11th-grade English teacher, "the most difficult poet in the English language."… — Peter S. Hawkins Copy Share Image
I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success, The Waste Land not figuring very… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“I remembered that once, as a child, I was filled with wonder, that I had marveled at tri-folded science projects, encyclopedias, and… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Eliot's own reflections on the primitive mind as a model for nondualistic thinking and on the nature and consequences of different modes… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“Anyhow, high school is just…The. Worst.” “Funny that you became a high school teacher, then,” I say, and she laughs again. “Something… — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image
“After the torchlight red on sweaty faces After the frosty silence in the gardens After the agony in stony places The shouting… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“The intellectual context in which Eliot began work on the "long poem" that was to become The Waste Land has much to… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“The Golden Bough captured the imagination of many artists in the early twentieth century. Eliot, certainly, was immersed in it, discussing it… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“And I wonder, therefore, how James Atlas can have been so indulgent in his recent essay ‘The Changing World of New York… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Reading The Waste Land, then, is in part reading about reading in the early twentieth century. The crisis in epistemology brought on… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
I find titles the hardest thing. I was worried that 'Waste Land' was too much of a downer. For me, 'The Crash… — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a… — George Martin Copy Share Image
“Eliot's understanding of poetic epistemology is a version of Bradley's theory, outlined in our second chapter, that knowing involves immediate, relational, and… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Dayodhuam: I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“I have used the theologians and their treatment of apocalypse as a model of what we might expect to find not only… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
![“[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is…” quote by T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e07/t-s-eliot-633_bits_on-the-waste-land-various-critics-have-d_2387391.jpg)
