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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
For me, it was a formative experience reading Eliot when I was younger. 'The Waste Land,' in particular. — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
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
“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
“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
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
