“Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
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.
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“Do I dare Disturb the universe?”
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
Source: The Wasteland, Prufrock and Other Poems
Javier Marías book Tu rostro mañana
...y un poco más tarde viene la pregunta que nadie se hace antes de obrar ni antes de hablar: ‘Do I dare disturb the universe?’, porque todo el mundo se atreve a ello, a turbar el universo y a molestarlo, con sus rápidas y pequeñas lenguas y con sus mezquinos pasos.
Source: Tu rostro mañana, 2. Baile y sueño [Your Face Tomorrow, Vol. 2: Dance and Dream] (2004), p. 111
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A.E. Housman (1859–1936) English classical scholar and poet
Saturae of Juvenal (Cambridge University Press, [1905] 1931) p. xi.
“The minute I knew I was in love was the minute when there was no question about it.”
David Levithan (1972) American author and editor
Source: How They Met, and Other Stories
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1990s, I Am a Man, a Black Man, an American (1998)
Terence Rattigan (1911–1977) playwright, screenwriter
The New York Journal-American, October 29, 1956.
