| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 18811 |
| QUOTATION: | And what the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (18881965), Anglo-American poet, critic. Little Gidding, pt. 1, Four Quartets (1942). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Eliot Collection. |
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