April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of he dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
4월은 매우 잔인한 달, 불쑥
죽은 땅에서 라일락을 솟아오르게 하고,
잊었던 추억과 욕망을
생생하게 되살리며,
겨우내 무뎌진 뿌리들을
봄비로 모조리 잠깨우거든..
~Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888~1965, American English poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor.-The Waste Land, 1922)
