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Quotation from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
“April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.”
The Waste Land, I. The Burial of the Dead, ll. 1-4 (Project Gutenberg #1321 (1922 text with notes))
The opening reverses Chaucer's welcome to April: in the waste land, spring's return of life is painful.
Citation: "April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain." — T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land, I. The Burial of the Dead, ll. 1-4 (Project Gutenberg #1321 (1922 text with notes)). (id eliot-the-waste-land-q1)
Portrait: Thomas Stearns Eliot by Lady Ottoline Morrell (1934), Lady Ottoline Morrell, Public domain.
