George Meredith foi poeta e escritor inglês.
“O gênio faz o que é preciso e o talento faz o que pode.”
The genius does what it takes and talent does what it can
fontes: "Last Words of a Sensitive Second-Rate Poet" (1868); Revista Caras http://www.caras.com.br, Edição de Terça-feira, 17 de outubro de 2006.
“A ação tanto é a vida da alma como do corpo.”
Variante: A acção tanto é a vida da alma como do corpo.
“A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.”
Ch. 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=pDlxjZ-z-woC&q=%22A+witty+woman+is+a+treasure+a+witty+beauty+is+a+power%22&pg=PA2#v=onepage.
Fonte: Diana of the Crossways http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4470/4470.txt (1885)
“I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.”
Fonte: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859), Ch. 1.
Prelude.
The Egoist http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/egost11.txt (1879)
“God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!”
Fonte: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859), Ch. 33.
“Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.”
Fonte: The Egoist http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/egost11.txt (1879), Ch. 7.
Fonte: The Egoist http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/egost11.txt (1879), Ch. 14.
“Kissing don't last; cookery do!”
Fonte: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859), Ch. 28.
“Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.”
Ch. 12 http://books.google.com/books?id=n2g-AAAAYAAJ&q=%22Who+rises+from+prayer+a+better+man+his+prayer+is+answered%22&pg=PA75#v=onepage.
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859)
St. 43.
Modern Love http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/modern_love.htm (1862)
“Speech is the small change of Silence.”
Fonte: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859), Ch. 34.
“And if I drink oblivion of a day,
So shorten I the stature of my soul.”
St. 12.
Modern Love http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/modern_love.htm (1862)
“See ye not, Courtesy
Is the true Alchemy,
Turning to gold all it touches and tries?”
The Song of Courtesy https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1381/1381-h/1381-h.htm#page129, IV (1859).
The Woods of Westermain http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-woods-of-westermain/, st. 1 (1883).
“The actors are, it seems, the usual three:
Husband and wife and lover.”
St. 25.
Modern Love http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/modern_love.htm (1862)
“But O the truth, the truth! the many eyes
That look on it! the diverse things they see!”
A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-ballad-of-fair-ladies-in-revolt/ st. 16 (1883).
St. 50.
Modern Love http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/modern_love.htm (1862)
“"How divine is utterance!" she said. "As we to the brutes, poets are to us."”
Fonte: Diana of the Crossways http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4470/4470.txt (1885), Ch. 16.
Juggling Jerry http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6583&poem=26458, st. 7 (1859).
“What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.”
Fonte: Diana of the Crossways http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4470/4470.txt (1885), Ch. 1.
“On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose.
Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend.”
Lucifer in Starlight http://www.george-macdonald.com/meredith/lucifer.htm, l. 1-2 (1883).
“The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts.”
Fonte: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859), Ch. 19.
“Ireland gives England her soldiers, her generals too.”
Fonte: Diana of the Crossways http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4470/4470.txt (1885), Ch. 2.
“How many a thing which we cast to the ground,
When others pick it up, becomes a gem!”
St. 41.
Compare: "Once in a golden hour / I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed", Alfred Tennyson, The Flower.
Modern Love http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/modern_love.htm (1862)
“She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer,
Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!”
Love in the Valley http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/love_valley.htm, st. 2 (1883).