Thomas Stearns Eliot nejznámější citáty
Thomas Stearns Eliot: Citáty o životě
Thomas Stearns Eliot citáty a výroky
„Nezralí básníci napodobují, zralí básníci kradou.“
Originál: (en) Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
Zdroj: [McCrum, Robert, Plagiarism: in the words of someone else… there's little new in lit, guardian.co.uk, 2010-01-17, 2011-03-14, http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/17/plagiarism-books-intellectual-property-mccrum]
Thomas Stearns Eliot: Citáty anglicky
“I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.”
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Zdroj: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
Kontext: 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.
“music heard so deeply
That it is not heard at all, but
you are the music
While the music lasts.”
Zdroj: Collected Poems, 1909-1962
“I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.”
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Zdroj: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
Zdroj: Quoted in Herbert Howarth, Notes on Some Figures behind T. S. Eliot (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964), p. 89
T.S. Eliot kniha The Sacred Wood
Zdroj: "Philip Massinger", a biographical essay in The Sacred Wood (1920)
T.S. Eliot kniha Four Quartets
Zdroj: Four Quartets
T.S. Eliot kniha Four Quartets
Varianta: Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
Zdroj: Four Quartets
“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;”
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Zdroj: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
Kontext: Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
For I have known them all already, known them all: —
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
“This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.”
T.S. Eliot Murder in the Cathedral
Zdroj: Murder in the Cathedral
“He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience.”
T.S. Eliot kniha The Waste Land
Zdroj: The Waste Land
T.S. Eliot kniha Four Quartets
Zdroj: Four Quartets
