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Quotation from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
“‘The Peace which passeth understanding’ is a feeble translation of the content of this word.”
The Waste Land, Notes, on l. 433 (Project Gutenberg #1321 (1922 text with notes))
Eliot's final note glosses shantih, the Upanishadic close of the poem, by way of Philippians 4:7.
Citation: "‘The Peace which passeth understanding’ is a feeble translation of the content of this word." — T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land, Notes, on l. 433 (Project Gutenberg #1321 (1922 text with notes)). (id eliot-the-waste-land-q8)
Portrait: Thomas Stearns Eliot by Lady Ottoline Morrell (1934), Lady Ottoline Morrell, Public domain.
