Source: The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
T.S. Eliot: Doing
T.S. Eliot was 20th century English author. Explore interesting quotes on doing.
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Context: 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.
Ash-Wednesday (1930)
Context: Because I do not hope to turn again
Because I do not hope
Because I do not hope to turn
Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope
I no longer strive to strive towards such things
(Why should the agèd eagle stretch its wings?)
Why should I mourn
The vanished power of the usual reign?
“I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.”
Source: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Context: 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.
“Do I dare Disturb the universe?”
Source: The Wasteland, 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.”
T.S. Eliot
book
Four Quartets
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)
Source: Four Quartets
Context: 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!!
“Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?”
Source: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
“The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.”
Variant: The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
Source: Murder in the Cathedral
“For he will do
As he do do
And there's no doing anything about it!”
Source: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
“Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit.”
Source: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
Notes towards the definition of culture(1948)
Ash-Wednesday (1930)