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
Gus: The Theatre Cat
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)
“In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.”
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Fonte: The Waste Land (1922), Line 60 et seq.
This is a reference to Dante's Inferno, Canto III, lines 55-57
“When the day's hustle and bustle is done,
Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun.”
The Old Gumbie Cat
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)
“Weave the wind. I have no ghosts,
An old man in a draughty house
Under a windy knob.”
"Gerontion"
Poems (1920)
Choruses from The Rock (1934)
The Music of Poetry (24 February 1942) the third W. P. Ker memorial lecture delivered in the University of Glasgow
Macavity: The Mystery Cat
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)
“O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag—
It's so elegant
So intelligent”
Fonte: The Waste Land (1922), Line 128 et seq.
“A dangerous person to disagree with.”
On Samuel Johnson in Homage to John Dryden: Three Essays on Poetry of the Seventeenth Century (1927)
Macavity: The Mystery Cat
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)
Ash-Wednesday (1930)
Contexto: And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices
In the lost lilac and the lost sea voices
And the weak spirit quickens to rebel
For the bent golden-rod and the lost sea smell
Quickens to recover
The cry of quail and the whirling plover
And the blind eye creates
The empty forms between the ivory gates
And smell renews the salt savour of the sandy earth
This is the time of tension between dying and birth
The place of solitude where three dreams cross
Between blue rocks
But when the voices shaken from the yew-tree drift away
Let the other yew be shaken and reply.
Macavity: The Mystery Cat
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)