I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be h…

T. S. Eliot
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I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. ✨ 1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.1.
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