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Quotation from Journey of the Magi by T. S. Eliot
“At the end we preferred to travel all night, Sleeping in snatches, With the voices singing in our ears, saying That this was all folly.”
Journey of the Magi, Lines 17-20 (Ariel Poems no. 8, 1927)
The close of the first paragraph, where doubt itself becomes one of the hardships of the road.
Citation: "At the end we preferred to travel all night, Sleeping in snatches, With the voices singing in our ears, saying That this was all folly." — T. S. Eliot, Journey of the Magi, Lines 17-20 (Ariel Poems no. 8, 1927). (id journey-of-the-magi-q2)
Portrait: T S Eliot 1927 The Journey of the Magi No 8 Ariel Poems Faber, Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890–1954), Public domain.
