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.
“The well of true wit is truth itself.”
Fonte: Diana of the Crossways http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4470/4470.txt (1885), Ch. 1.
“There is nothing the body suffers that the soul may not profit by.”
Fonte: Diana of the Crossways http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4470/4470.txt (1885), Ch. 18.
“More brain, O Lord, more brain! or we shall mar
Utterly this fair garden we might win.”
St. 48.
Modern Love http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/modern_love.htm (1862)
Juggling Jerry, st. 9 (1859).
“Into the breast that gives the rose,
Shall I with shuddering fall?”
Ode to the Spirit of Earth in Autumn http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/MeredithPoems1/00000087.htm, st. 13 (1862).
St. 30.
Modern Love http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/modern_love.htm (1862)
“Behold the life at ease; it drifts,
The sharpened life commands its course.”
Hard Weather, l. 71 (1888).
“Civil limitation daunts
His utterance never; the nymphs blush, not he.”
An Orson of the Muse http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/MeredithPoems2/00000028.htm (1883).
St. 4.
Modern Love http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/modern_love.htm (1862)
Prelude.
The Egoist http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/egost11.txt (1879)
“Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.”
Fonte: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859), Ch. 15.
The Lark Ascending http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/lark_ascending.htm, l. 65-70 (1881).
“Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank,
The army of unalterable law.”
Lucifer in Starlight, l. 13-14.
Ode to the Spirit of Earth in Autumn, st. 14.