April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain.

The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.

A people without history. / Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern / Of timeless moments. So while the light fails / On a winter's afternoon, in a secluded chapel / History is now and England.

The basis of drama is any form or rhythm imposed upon the world of action.

At the violet hour, when the eyes and back / Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits / Like a taxi throbbing waiting.

When the short day is brightest, / with frost and fire, / The brief sun flames the ice, / on pond and ditches, / In windless cold that is the heart's heat.

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

Let us go then, you and I, / When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table.

I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids. Sprouting despondently at area gates.

Radio is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.