Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow . - T. S. Eliot
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Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow .
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T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was an American-born English poet, dramatist and literary critic. Noted for spiritual and religious themes in many of his poems, he converted from Unitarianism to Anglicanism in 1927.
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