„This is the time of tension between dying and birth
The place of solitude where three dreams cross
Between blue rocks“
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.
Thomas Stearns Eliot17
poeta, dramaturg i eseista angielski 1888 - 1965Podobne cytaty
„The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.“
— T.S. Eliot 20th century English author 1888 - 1965
„Folks, I'm telling you,
birthing is hard
and dying is mean-
so get yourself
a little loving
in between.“
— Langston Hughes American writer and social activist 1902 - 1967
„For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.“
— Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Ode
Music and Moonlight (1874), Ode
Kontekst: We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth;
And o'erthrew them with prophesying
To the old of the new world's worth;
For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.
„A place of dream, the Holy Land
Hangs midway between earth and heaven.“
— Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford American author 1835 - 1921
The Holy Land.
„Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations“
— Rollo May US psychiatrist 1909 - 1994
Źródło: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 6 : On the Limits of Creativity, p. 115
Kontekst: Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
„I think there's a real tension between sophistication and accessibility.“
— Daniel Abraham speculative fiction writer from the United States 1969
interview with Locus Magazine, June 2008
Kontekst: Writers are a basically insecure bunch. We are convinced that everything we do sucks, all the time. It's something you have to fight. The best way to make sure that your writing will never be particularly good is to use it for something besides telling the story. And I think there's a real tension between sophistication and accessibility.
„Humans are the between before and beyond. Ever elusive and ever tensional“
— Kuruvilla Pandikattu Indian philosopher 1957
Between Before and Beyond, p. 7.
„There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance.“
— Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000)
— Ioan Robu Roman Catholic archbishop 1944
Źródło: Pope Francis will travel to Romania in 2019 https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/39960/pope-francis-will-travel-to-romania-in-2019 (20 November 2018)
„The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.“
— Woody Allen American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician 1935
— Fred Shero Former ice hockey player and coach 1925 - 1990
Jackson, Jim, Walking Together Forever: The Broad Street Bullies, Then and Now
„In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.“
— Ellen Goodman American journalist and writer 1941
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