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by Perryman on April 2nd, 2007

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Who said "April is the cruelest month"?

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  • by Nelson L. Squeeko on April 2nd, 2007

    Nelson L. Squeeko

    “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

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  • by Jodie44 on April 3rd, 2007

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    T.S. Eliot first said, or rather wrote it, in his poem, "The Wasteland".
    The American taxpayer then spent decades reiterating those words, LOL.

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  • by hijklmno on April 2nd, 2007

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    TS Eliot in the opening lines of The Waste Land (1922):

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

    Compare it to the opening of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1380s-1390s):

    When April with his showers so sweet
    Has pierced the drought of March to the root,
    And bathed every vein in that liquor
    Whose blessed power engenders the flower...

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