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
Variante: The awful daring of a moment's surrender
Which an age of prudence can never retract
By this, and this only, we have existed
Fonte: The Waste Land (1922)
Fonte: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
“I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.”
Letter to his godson, Thomas Erle Faber (January 1931) as quoted in "T.S. Eliot's Private Letters To Faber Publishing Family To Be Sold" at World Collector's Net http://www.worldcollectorsnet.com/news/newstories/news736.html (12 August 2005)
Fonte: Four Quartets
Contexto: I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. My Cat is a Lilliecat Hubvously. What a lilliecat it is. There never was such a Lilliecat. Its Name is JELLYORUM and its one Idea is to be Usefull!!
Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)
Fonte: Four Quartets
Contexto: The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence; the historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of the literature of Europe from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order. This historical sense, which is a sense of the timeless as well as of the temporal and of the timeless and of the temporal together, is what makes a writer traditional. And it is at the same time what makes a writer most acutely conscious of his place in time, of his contemporaneity.
“It is impossible to say just what I mean!”
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Fonte: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
Contexto: It is impossible to say just what I mean!
But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen:
Would it have been worth while If one, settling a
Pillow or throwing off a shawl,
And turning toward the window, should say:
"That is not it at all,
That is not what I meant, at all."
“Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow”
Fonte: The Waste Land
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Fonte: Selected Poems
“Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?”
Fonte: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
Ash-Wednesday (1930)
“I think we are in rats’ alley
Where the dead men lost their bones.”
Fonte: The Waste Land
“The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.”
Variante: The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
Fonte: Murder in the Cathedral