April is the cruelest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain

Winter kept us warm, covering earth in forgetful snow; feeding a little life with dried tubers.

We stopped in the colonnade and went on in sunlight into the Hofgarten, and drank coffee and talked for an hour. 

Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyant, had a bad cold; nevertheless is known to be the wisest woman in Europe with a wicked pack of cards....