T. S. Eliot: Citations en anglais
“I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.”
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Source: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
Contexte: 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.”
Source: 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)
Source: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
Source: Quoted in Herbert Howarth, Notes on Some Figures behind T. S. Eliot (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964), p. 89
T.S. Eliot livre The Sacred Wood
Source: "Philip Massinger", a biographical essay in The Sacred Wood (1920)
T.S. Eliot livre Four Quartets
Source: Four Quartets
T.S. Eliot livre Four Quartets
Variante: Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
Source: Four Quartets
“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;”
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Source: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
Contexte: 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
Source: 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 livre The Waste Land
Source: The Waste Land
T.S. Eliot livre Four Quartets
Source: Four Quartets
