T. S. Eliot Quotes

And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching

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• And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Motive
  • Purification
  • Quartets