Yet we have gone on living,
Living and partly living.

T.S. Eliot

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Topic

Carrying on Life

Speaker

Chorus

Author

T.S. Eliot

Source

Murder in the Cathedral

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1935 1930s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Eliot, T. S. Murder in the Cathedral. 1935, Chapter House, Canterbury Cathedral, pt. 1.

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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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Topic
Routine Coffee Passage of time

Author

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Source
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1915 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Eliot, T. S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, June 1915, I. 51.

Current Citation

Eliot, T. S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." The Waste Land and Other Poems. Vintage, 2021, I. 51.

Another quote from the 1930s

There is no such thing as justice-in or out of court.

Clarence Darrow

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Topic
Elusiveness of justice Justice
Speaker
Clarence Darrow
Medium
Interview
Language
English
Time
1936 1930s 20th century
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Citation

Darrow, Clarence. Interview in Chicago. Apr. 1936.

Another quote about Life

All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away.

1st Peter 1:24

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Topic
Sic transit gloria mundi Ephemeral nature of life Grass Life
Source
1st Peter The Bible
Medium
Scripture
Genre
Religious literature
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
Greek
Time
65 60s 1st century
Era
Classical antiquity
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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (1st Peter 1:24).