Thomas Stearns Eliot Frases famosas
“Só os que se arriscam a ir longe demais são capazes de descobrir o quão longe se pode ir.”
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go
citado em "The Cornell hotel and restaurant administration quarterly", Volume 4 - Página 3, Cornell University. School of Hotel Administration - School of Hotel Administration, Cornell University., 1963
Thomas Stearns Eliot frases e citações
“O que poderia ter sido e o que foi convergem para um só fim, que é sempre presente.”
What might have been and what has been. Point to one end, which is always present
Prufrock and Other Observations and THE DIARIES OF FORTUNE - página 30 http://books.google.com/books?id=A8KxC8oMgN4C&pg=PT30, T. S. Eliot and Daniel Oldis, KayDreams, ISBN 1603038345, 9781603038348
the poem, which is a process of exploration, an effort to circle the object which is its focus, and return to the starting point with a fuller comprehension of it
citado em "T. S. Eliot: poems in the making" - Página 185, Gertrude Patterson - Manchester University Press, 1971, ISBN 038904086X, 9780389040866 - 198 páginas
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.
citado em "Eliot, T.S., “Philip Massinger”, The Sacred Wood".
The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
Thomas Stearns Eliot: Frases em inglês
“I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.”
Fonte: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Contexto: I grow old … I grow old...
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Fonte: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
Contexto: I grow old … I grow old...
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
The final lines of the poem.
The Waste Land (1922)
Fonte: The Waste Land and Other Poems
“Love is most nearly itself
When here and now cease to matter.”
Fonte: Four Quartets
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Fonte: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
Contexto: I am no prophet — and here's no great matter;
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid.
Ash-Wednesday (1930)
Variante: Suffer us not to mock ourselves with falsehood
Teach us to care and not to care