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
“For he will do
As he do do
And there's no doing anything about it!”
Fonte: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Fonte: Christianity and Culture: The Idea of a Christian Society and Notes Towards the Definition of Culture
“Now that the lilacs are in bloom
She has a bowl of lilacs in her room”
Fonte: Collected Poems, 1909-1962
Fonte: Tradition and the Individual Talent: An Essay
“Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit.”
Fonte: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
Variante: We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
Fonte: Four Quartets
"Whispers of Immortality"; "Grishkin" has been identified by Ezra Pound as having been "Serafima Astafieva" a Russian dancer.
Poems (1920)
The Naming of Cats
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)
Notes towards the definition of culture(1948)
Introduction to Pascal’s Pensées
Ash-Wednesday (1930)