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
“I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing,
Looking into the heart of light, the silence.”
Źródło: The Waste Land (1922), Line 39 et seq.
Macavity: The Mystery Cat
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)
The Song of the Jellicles
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)
Macavity: The Mystery Cat
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)
The Rum Tum Tugger
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)
“And we all say: OH!
Well I never!
Was there ever
A Cat so clever
As Magical Mr. Mistoffelees!”
Mr. Mistoffelees
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)
“Here I am, an old man in a dry month,
Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.”
"Gerontion"
Poems (1920)
“We see the light but see not whence it comes.
O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!”
Choruses from The Rock (1934)
“Webster was much possessed by death
And saw the skull beneath the skin”
"Whispers of Immortality"
Poems (1920)
Choruses from The Rock (1934)
“We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw.”
The Hollow Men (1925)
Letter to Richard Aldington (24 February, 1927). The Letters of T.S. Eliot: 1926-1927 p. 424
The Contemporary English Novelist, La Nouvelle Revue française (1 May 1927)
A quotation of a traditional Guy Fawkes Night saying
The Hollow Men (1925)
Źródło: Notes Towards the Definition of Culture, T.S. Eliot. Quoted from Gewali, Salil (2013). Great Minds on India. New Delhi: Penguin Random House.
“Signs are taken for wonders. “We would see a sign!””
The word within a word, unable to speak a word,
Swaddled with darkness.
"Gerontion"
Poems (1920)
Old Deuteronomy
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)