T. S. Eliot Quotes

Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of the street.

T. S. Eliot

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• Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of the street.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time
  • Ends
  • Goodbye