April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

— T.S. Eliot (1888–1965), Dichter

Source: The Waste Land (über goodreads, Wortlaut nicht gegengeprüft)

Topics: Grief & Comfort, Time & Transience, Suffering & the Question of God

T.S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888–1965) war ein in den USA geborener, in England wirkender Dichter, Dramatiker und Literaturnobelpreisträger, der 1927 zur anglikanischen Kirche konvertierte. Seine Dichtungen thematisieren die Sinnkrise der Moderne sowie christliche Motive von Buße und Erlösung, während frühe Werke und Vorträge wegen antisemitischer Passagen in der Kritik stehen. Für Bibelleser bietet sein Werk eine sprachlich präzise Auseinandersetzung mit Zeit, Ewigkeit, menschlicher Gebrochenheit und göttlicher Gnade in einer säkularen Welt.

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