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T. S. Eliot, de son nom complet Thomas Stearns Eliot , est un poète, dramaturge et critique littéraire américain naturalisé britannique. Il a reçu le prix Nobel de littérature en 1948.

✵ 26. septembre 1888 – 4. janvier 1965   •   Autres noms Thomas S. Eliot, టి ఎస్ ఎలియట్
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T. S. Eliot: Citations en anglais

“Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death's dream kingdom´
These do not appear:
There, the eyes are
Sunlight on a broken column
There, is a tree swinging
And voices are
In the wind's singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star.”

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T.S. Eliot livre The Hollow Men

The Hollow Men (1925)

“These modern productions are all very well,
But there's nothing to equal, from what I hear tell,
That moment of mystery
When I made history
As Firefrorefiddle, the Fiend of the Fell.”

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T.S. Eliot livre Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

Gus: The Theatre Cat
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)

“It is not the "greatness," the intensity, of the emotions, the components, but the intensity of the artistic process, the pressure, so to speak, under which the fusion takes place, that counts.”

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T.S. Eliot livre Tradition and the Individual Talent

Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)

“Let these words answer
For what is done, not to be done again
May the judgement not be too heavy upon us”

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Ash-Wednesday (1930)

“In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.”

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T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)

“Unreal city,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.”

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T.S. Eliot livre The Waste Land

Source: The Waste Land (1922), Line 60 et seq.

This is a reference to Dante's Inferno, Canto III, lines 55-57

“When the day's hustle and bustle is done,
Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun.”

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T.S. Eliot livre Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

The Old Gumbie Cat
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)

“The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.”

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Time (23 October 1950)

“I have given you the power of choice, and you only alternate
Between futile speculation and unconsidered action.”

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Choruses from The Rock (1934)

“And the wind shall say: "Here were decent godless people:
Their only monument the asphalt road
And a thousand lost golf balls."”

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Choruses from The Rock (1934)

“Weave the wind. I have no ghosts,
An old man in a draughty house
Under a windy knob.”

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T.S. Eliot livre Poems

"Gerontion"
Poems (1920)

“When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.”

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“What is that sound high in the air
Murmur of maternal lamentation
Who are those hooded hordes swarming
Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth
Ringed by the flat horizon only
What is the city over the mountains
Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air
Falling towers
Jerusalem Athens Alexandria
Vienna London
Unreal”

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T.S. Eliot livre The Waste Land

Source: The Waste Land (1922), Line 367 et seq.

“Then it seemed as if men must proceed from light to light, in the light of the Word,
Through the Passion and Sacrifice saved in spite of their negative being;
Bestial as always before, carnal, self seeking as always before, selfish and purblind as ever before,
Yet always struggling, always reaffirming, always resuming their march on the way that was lit by the light;
Often halting, loitering, straying, delaying, returning, yet following no other way.”

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Choruses from The Rock (1934)

“No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job…. Poetry.. remains one person talking to another…. no poet can write a poem of amplitude unless he is the master of the prosaic.”

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The Music of Poetry (24 February 1942) the third W. P. Ker memorial lecture delivered in the University of Glasgow

“He always has an alibi, and one or two to spare:
At whatever time the deed took place-
Macavity wasn't there.”

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T.S. Eliot livre Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

Macavity: The Mystery Cat
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)

“It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”

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Dante (1929), a biographical essay

“O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag—
It's so elegant
So intelligent”

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T.S. Eliot livre The Waste Land

Source: The Waste Land (1922), Line 128 et seq.

“Whoever has approved this idea of order, of the form of European, of English literature, will not find it preposterous that the past should be altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past. And the poet who is aware of this will be aware of great difficulties and responsibilities.”

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T.S. Eliot livre Tradition and the Individual Talent

Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)

“A dangerous person to disagree with.”

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On Samuel Johnson in Homage to John Dryden: Three Essays on Poetry of the Seventeenth Century (1927)

“They say that all the Cats whose wicked deeds are widely known
(I might mention Mungojerrie, I might mention Griddlebone)
Are nothing more than agents for the Cat who all the time
Just controls their operations: the Napoleon of Crime!”

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T.S. Eliot livre Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

Macavity: The Mystery Cat
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)

“This is the time of tension between dying and birth
The place of solitude where three dreams cross
Between blue rocks”

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Ash-Wednesday (1930)
Contexte: And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices
In the lost lilac and the lost sea voices
And the weak spirit quickens to rebel
For the bent golden-rod and the lost sea smell
Quickens to recover
The cry of quail and the whirling plover
And the blind eye creates
The empty forms between the ivory gates
And smell renews the salt savour of the sandy earth
This is the time of tension between dying and birth
The place of solitude where three dreams cross
Between blue rocks
But when the voices shaken from the yew-tree drift away
Let the other yew be shaken and reply.

“Sister, mother
And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea,
Suffer me not to be separated And let my cry come unto Thee.”

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Ash-Wednesday (1930)

“What happens is a continual surrender of himself as he is at the moment to something which is more valuable. The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.”

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T.S. Eliot livre Tradition and the Individual Talent

Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)

“Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,
For he's a fiend in feline shape, a monster of depravity.
You may meet him in a by-street, you may see him in the square —
But when a crime's discovered, then Macavity's not there!”

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T.S. Eliot livre Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

Macavity: The Mystery Cat
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)

“Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us — if at all — not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.”

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T.S. Eliot livre The Hollow Men

The Hollow Men (1925)

“so the countess passed on until she came through the little park, where Niobe presented her with a cabinet, and so departed.”

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T.S. Eliot livre Poems

"Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a cigar"
Poems (1920)

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