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Tree Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.
- Cling, swing, Spring, sing, Swing up into the apple tree.
- Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to…
- A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no…
- Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears…
- We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for…
- The tiger in the tiger-pit Is not more irritable than I. The whipping tail is not morestill Than when I smell the enemy Writhing in…
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