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  • After he read the poem, banging the last "shantih" with a dental t, he began to interpret the poem line by line.

    Letters to the Editor 2005

  • After he read the poem, banging the last "shantih" with a dental t, he began to interpret the poem line by line.

    Letters to the Editor 2005

  • The key word in his title, "shantih," is Sanskrit for tranquillity.

    NYT > Home Page By KEN JOHNSON 2010

  • Among its famous phrases are "April is the cruellest month" (its first line); "I will show you fear in a handful of dust"; and the Sanskrit "Shantih shantih shantih" (its last line).

    Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • Among its famous phrases are "April is the cruellest month" (its first line); "I will show you fear in a handful of dust"; and the Sanskrit "Shantih shantih shantih" (its last line).

    Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • I understand Andrew's call for inner peace and the shantih-path, but lately I've found myself wishing we could all get a little more riled.

    What does this make the future look like? Roger Sutton 2009

  • When we got to Shantih shantih shantih in “The Waste Land,” he actually convinced me to take Sanskrit – but I only lasted 2 weeks in that class, taught by someone who seemed to me as old as that language; I left the only other student in the course to fend for himself.

    Rafter of Satan : Rigoberto González : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • Among its famous phrases are "April is the cruellest month" (its first line); "I will show you fear in a handful of dust"; and the Sanskrit "Shantih shantih shantih" (its last line).

    Jon Aquino's Mental Garden 2009

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