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 was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing,
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.”
Fonte: The Waste Land (1922), Line 39 et seq.
Macavity: The Mystery Cat
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)
The Song of the Jellicles
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)
Macavity: The Mystery Cat
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)
The Rum Tum Tugger
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)
“And we all say: OH!
Well I never!
Was there ever
A Cat so clever
As Magical Mr. Mistoffelees!”
Mr. Mistoffelees
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)
“Here I am, an old man in a dry month,
Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.”
"Gerontion"
Poems (1920)
“We see the light but see not whence it comes.
O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!”
Choruses from The Rock (1934)
“Webster was much possessed by death
And saw the skull beneath the skin”
"Whispers of Immortality"
Poems (1920)
Choruses from The Rock (1934)
“We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw.”
The Hollow Men (1925)
Letter to Richard Aldington (24 February, 1927). The Letters of T.S. Eliot: 1926-1927 p. 424
The Contemporary English Novelist, La Nouvelle Revue française (1 May 1927)
A quotation of a traditional Guy Fawkes Night saying
The Hollow Men (1925)
Fonte: Notes Towards the Definition of Culture, T.S. Eliot. Quoted from Gewali, Salil (2013). Great Minds on India. New Delhi: Penguin Random House.
“Signs are taken for wonders. “We would see a sign!””
The word within a word, unable to speak a word,
Swaddled with darkness.
"Gerontion"
Poems (1920)
Old Deuteronomy
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)