I said to my soul be still, and wait without hope; for hope would be hope for the wrong thing. - T. S. Eliot
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I said to my soul be still, and wait without hope; for hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
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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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