twinkle quotes

This is the dead land This is cactus land Here the stone images Are raised, here they receive The supplication of a dead man's hand Under the twinkle of a fading star.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  'The Hollow Men'.

A little round, fat, oily man of God, Was one I chiefly marked among the fry: He had a roguish twinkle in his eye.

-Thomson,James pseudonym 'BV',ByssheVanolis
  The Castle of Indolence, canto1, stanza 69. Scottish  poet  born  in  Port  Glasgow.  He  trained  as   an  army schoolmaster  but  was  dismissed from  army  service  in 1862  for alcoholism.  He  worked  in  London  as  a  poet,  journalist  and critic,  and  published  his  greatest  work  The  City   of  Dreadful Night in1874.

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