...of nothing to think about; Or when, under ether, the mind is conscious but conscious of nothing— I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope...shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The...

...less at the end of the modern rope. It has worn too thin to give hopeful support. We have learned to wait without hope, "for hope would be hope for the wrong thing." Hence the wholesomeness of remembering in these times of suspense what has been forgotten and of recovering...

...the wrong thing: wait withont love for laee woaid be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith Bot the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. One way to come lo yes is to say no to everything thai does nol nonrish and entice onr secret inner...

...valuation. The transformation is mainly effected through setting up and resolving paradoxes, as in 'So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing', or 'In windless cold that is the heart's heat'. While the idiom in which the criticism of experience...

...person does not control the vertical. There is no remote control device. As the poet, TS Eliot, puts it, I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope...wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the hope and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought:...

...poem offers any real hope; even when he reached the spiritual maturity of East Coker he still writes, I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing. The years that followed The Waste Land found Eliot waiting for a resolution of the problems that confronted...

...tension. In it humans have 'a peculiar area of freedom to obey or disobey, to be hopeful or resigned'.56 'The faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting' (TS Eliot). So long as the promise remains simply a promise, there is room for a 'psychopathology of...

...be loved by Him. " 224 The same idea is beautifully put in one of TS Eliot's most famous quatrains: "I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope,/...thing; wait without love./ For love would be love for the wrong thing; there is yet faith./ But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting./...

...favourite English poet is TS Eliot. Not everyone had heard of him. Not everyone understands the poem be still, and wait without hope, for hope would be...without love for love would be love of the wrong thing wait without thought for you are not ready for thought . . . ' The blank incomprehension on the faces...

...poem "East Coker," "I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope." A few lines later, he writes: Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought:...shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. And he completes the poem, after noting that "As we grow older/The world becomes stranger," with the...