Thomas Stearns Eliot słynne cytaty
Źródło: Jake Page, Jak koty widzą świat i ludzi?, tłum. A. Nowicki, wyd. Bellona, Warszawa 2010, s. 23.
„Tylko ci, którzy ryzykują pójście za daleko dowiedzą się jak daleko można dojść.”
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. (ang.)
Thomas Stearns Eliot Cytaty o czasie
„W minucie znajdzie się czas,
By postanowić i sprostować
To, co minuta odmieni.”
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. (ang.)
Źródło: Prufrock and Other Observations [w:] Wybór poezji, tłum. W. Dulęba, Wrocław 1990, s. 5.
Źródło: Spalony Norton
Thomas Stearns Eliot cytaty
„I tak właśnie kończy się świat. Nie hukiem a skomleniem.”
Źródło: Wydrążeni ludzie
The Wasteland, Prufrock and Other Poems
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker
And in short, I was afraid. (ang.)
Źródło: Prufrock and Other Observations [w:] Wybór poezji, tłum. W. Dulęba, Wrocław 1990, s. 7.
Źródło: Melania Sobańska-Bondaruk, Stanisław Bogusław Lenard (oprac.), Wiek XX w źródłach, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 2002, ISBN 8301127104, s. 244.
Thomas Stearns Eliot: Cytaty po angielsku
Gus: The Theatre Cat
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)
“In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.”
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Źródło: 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.”
The Old Gumbie Cat
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)
“Weave the wind. I have no ghosts,
An old man in a draughty house
Under a windy knob.”
"Gerontion"
Poems (1920)
Choruses from The Rock (1934)
The Music of Poetry (24 February 1942) the third W. P. Ker memorial lecture delivered in the University of Glasgow
Macavity: The Mystery Cat
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)
“O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag—
It's so elegant
So intelligent”
Źródło: The Waste Land (1922), Line 128 et seq.
“A dangerous person to disagree with.”
On Samuel Johnson in Homage to John Dryden: Three Essays on Poetry of the Seventeenth Century (1927)
Macavity: The Mystery Cat
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)
Ash-Wednesday (1930)
Kontekst: 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.
Macavity: The Mystery Cat
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)
