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“All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, All our ignorance brings us nearer to death, But nearness to death no nearer to God. Where is the life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”

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The Waste Land and Other Poems

This volume includes T.S. Eliot's influential poem 'The Waste Land,' a landmark in modernist poetry, along with a selection of additional works that showcase Eliot's poetic style and thematic concerns. more

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T.S. Eliot

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