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Stephen Crane, né le 1er novembre 1871 à Newark, dans l'État du New Jersey, et mort le 5 juin 1900 à Badenweiler, en Allemagne, est un écrivain, poète et journaliste américain. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. novembre 1871 – 5. juin 1900   •   Autres noms स्टिफ़ेन क्रैन, স্টিফেন ক্রেন
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Stephen Crane: Citations en anglais

“If I am going to be drowned — if I am going to be drowned — if I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods, who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and trees?”

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Stephen Crane livre The Open Boat

Pt. VI
The Open Boat (1894)
Source: The Open Boat and Other Stories

“They were going to look at war, the red animal — war, the blood-swollen god. And they were deeply engrossed in this march.”

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Stephen Crane livre The Red Badge of Courage

Source: The Red Badge of Courage (1895), Ch. 3
Contexte: The line, broken into moving fragments by the ground, went calmly on through fields and woods. The youth looked at the men nearest him, and saw, for the most part, expressions of deep interest, as if they were investigating something that had fascinated them. One or two stepped with overvaliant airs as if they were already plunged into war. Others walked as upon thin ice. The greater part of the untested men appeared quiet and absorbed. They were going to look at war, the red animal — war, the blood-swollen god. And they were deeply engrossed in this march.

“The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.”

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Stephen Crane livre The Red Badge of Courage

Source: The Red Badge of Courage (1895), Ch. 1 First lines.
Contexte: The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors.

“I saw a man pursuing the horizon;
Round and round they sped.”

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Stephen Crane livre The Black Riders and Other Lines

Source: The Black Riders and Other Lines (1895), XXIV
Contexte: I saw a man pursuing the horizon;
Round and round they sped.
I was disturbed at this;
I accosted the man.
"It is futile," I said,
"You can never—""You lie," he cried,
And ran on.

“The hard waves see an arm flung high;
Scorn hits strong because of a lie;
Yet there exists a mystic tie.
Unwind my riddle.”

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Epigraph in " The Clan of No Name http://web.archive.org/20040803101258/www.geocities.com/stephen_crane_us/clannoname.html" (1899); published in the anthology Wounds in the Rain (1900)
Contexte: Unwind my riddle.
Cruel as hawks the hours fly;
Wounded men seldom come home to die;
The hard waves see an arm flung high;
Scorn hits strong because of a lie;
Yet there exists a mystic tie.
Unwind my riddle.

“Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.
Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky
And the affrighted steed ran on alone,
Do not weep.
War is kind.”

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Do Not Weep, Maiden, For War is Kind, No. 1, st. 1
War Is Kind and Other Lines (1899)

“A man said to the universe:
"Sir I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation."”

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A Man Said to the Universe, No. 20
War Is Kind and Other Lines (1899)
Source: War Is Kind and Other Poems

“It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.”

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Stephen Crane livre The Red Badge of Courage

Source: The Red Badge of Courage

“Think as I think," said a man, "or you are abominably wicked; you are a toad." And after I thought of it, I said, "I will, then, be a toad.”

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“When the suicide arrived at the sky, the people there asked him: "Why?" He replied: "Because no one admired me.”

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Source: Complete Poems of Stephen Crane

“Tell her this
And more,—
That the king of the seas
Weeps too, old, helpless man.
The bustling fates
Heap his hands with corpses
Until he stands like a child
With surplus of toys.”

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Source: Complete Poems of Stephen Crane

“Two or three angels
Came near to the earth.
They saw a fat church.
Little black streams of people
Came and went in continually.
And the angels were puzzled
To know why the people went thus,
And why they stayed so long within.”

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Source: Complete Poems of Stephen Crane

“A MAN FEARED

A man feared that he might find an assassin;
Another that he might find a victim.
One was more wise than the other.”

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“The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe.”

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Stephen Crane livre Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Source: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

“None of them knew the color of the sky. Their eyes glanced level, and were fastened upon the waves that swept toward them. These waves were of the hue of slate, save for the tops, which were of foaming white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its edge was jagged with waves that seemed thrust up in points like rocks.”

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Stephen Crane livre The Open Boat

Pt. I
The Open Boat (1894)

“When one exchanged the rowing-seat for a place in the bottom of the boat, he suffered a bodily depression that caused him to be careless of everything save an obligation to wiggle one finger. There was cold sea-water swashing to and fro in the boat, and he lay in it. His head, pillowed on a thwart, was within an inch of the swirl of a wave crest, and sometimes a particularly obstreperous sea came in-board and drenched him once more. But these matters did not annoy him. It is almost certain that if the boat had capsized he would have tumbled comfortably out upon the ocean as if he felt sure it was a great soft mattress.”

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Stephen Crane livre The Open Boat

Pt. IV
The Open Boat (1894)

“In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, "Is it good, friend?"
"It is bitter—bitter," he answered;
"But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart."”

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Stephen Crane livre The Black Riders and Other Lines

Source: The Black Riders and Other Lines (1895), III

“You cannot choose your battlefield,
God does that for you;
But you can plant a standard
Where a standard never flew.”

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The Colors by Nathalia Crane
Misattributed

“The wayfarer,
Perceiving the pathway to truth,
Was struck with astonishment.
It was thickly grown with weeds.
"Ha," he said,
"I see that none has passed here
In a long time."
Later he saw that each weed
Was a singular knife.
"Well," he mumbled at last,
"Doubtless there are other roads."”

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The Wayfarer, No. 13
War Is Kind and Other Lines (1899)

“Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.
Because your father tumbled in the yellow trenches,
Raged at his breast, gulped and died,
Do not weep.
War is kind.”

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Do Not Weep, Maiden, For War is Kind, st. 3
War Is Kind and Other Lines (1899)

“A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover that there is another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats.”

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Stephen Crane livre The Open Boat

Pt. I
The Open Boat (1894)

“It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment.”

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Stephen Crane livre The Red Badge of Courage

Source: The Red Badge of Courage (1895), Ch. 5

“The red sun was pasted in the sky like a wafer.”

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Stephen Crane livre The Red Badge of Courage

Source: The Red Badge of Courage (1895), Ch. 9

“"Truth," said a traveller,
"Is a rock, a mighty fortress;
"Often have I been to it,
"Even to its highest tower,
"From whence the world looks black.""Truth," said a traveller,
"Is a breath, a wind,
"A shadow, a phantom;
"Long have I pursued it,
"But never have I touched
"The hem of its garment."And I believed the second traveller;
For truth was to me
A breath, a wind,
A shadow, a phantom,
And never had I touched
The hem of its garment.”

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Stephen Crane livre The Black Riders and Other Lines

Source: The Black Riders and Other Lines (1895), XXVIII

“At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way. He conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy. He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage.”

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Stephen Crane livre The Red Badge of Courage

Source: The Red Badge of Courage (1895), Ch. 9

“If there is a witness to my little life,
To my tiny throes and struggles,
He sees a fool;
And it is not fine for gods to menace fools.”

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Stephen Crane livre The Black Riders and Other Lines

Source: The Black Riders and Other Lines (1895), XIII

“When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples. Any visible expression of nature would surely be pelleted with his jeers. Then, if there be no tangible thing to hoot he feels, perhaps, the desire to confront a personification and indulge in pleas, bowed to one knee, and with hands supplicant, saying: "Yes, but I love myself." A high cold star on a winter's night is the word he feels that she says to him. Thereafter he knows the pathos of his situation.”

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Stephen Crane livre The Open Boat

Pt. VI
The Open Boat (1894)

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