„This is the dead landThis is cactus landHere the stone imagesAre raised, here they receiveThe supplication of a dead man’s handUnder the twinkle of a fading star.[…]The eyes are not hereThere are no eyes hereIn this valley of dying starsIn this hollow valleyThis broken jaw of our lost kingdoms[http://aduni.org/~heather/occs/honors/Notesonpoem.htm#fiftysevensixty In this last of meeting placesWe grope togetherAnd avoid speech]Gathered on this beach of the tumid river[http://aduni.org/~heather/occs/honors/Notesonpoem.htm#sixtyonesixtytwo Sightless, unlessThe eyes reappear][http://aduni.org/~heather/occs/honors/Notesonpoem.htm#sixtyfoursixtythree As the perpetual starMultifoliate rose]Of death’s twilight kingdomThe hope onlyOf empty men.“

— T.S. Eliot

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„This is the dead landThis is cactus landHere the stone imagesAre raised, here they receiveThe supplication of a dead man's handUnder the twinkle of a fading star.[…]The eyes are not hereThere are no eyes hereIn this valley of dying starsIn this hollow valley“
— T.S. Eliot
„Eyes I dare not meet in dreamsIn death's dream kingdom´These do not appear:There, the eyes areSunlight on a broken columnThere, is a tree swingingAnd voices areIn the wind's singingMore distant and more solemnThan a fading star.“
— T.S. Eliot
„Oh never starWas lost here but it rose afar.“
— Robert Browning
„Out here on the perimeter there are no stars. Out here we is stoned. Immaculate.“
— Jim Morrison
„Those who have crossedWith direct eyes, to death's other KingdomRemember us — if at all — not as lostViolent souls, but onlyAs the hollow menThe stuffed men.“
— T.S. Eliot
„We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living“
— Confucius
„From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?“
— Friedrich Nietzsche