“And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?”
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20th century English author 1888–1965Related quotes
“Do I dare Disturb the universe?”
Source: The Wasteland, Prufrock and Other Poems
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.
“I dared much, but the next time, you will see, I will dare even more…”
J'ai osé beaucoup, mais la prochaine fois, vous verrez, j'oserai plus encore...
Franck, Symphonie en ré mineur, Chefs-d'Œuvre de l'Art, Grand Musiciens, 75. Paris, Hachette-Fabri, 1969.
Talking about his Symphony in D minor, after it had been received unfavorably at its 1889 premiere.
“Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?”
Source: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
“The will to do, the soul to dare”
Canto I, stanza 21.
The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)
Context: On his bold visage middle age
Had slightly pressed its signet sage,
Yet had not quenched the open truth
And fiery vehemence of youth;
Forward and frolic glee was there,
The will to do, the soul to dare,
The sparkling glance, soon blown to fire,
Of hasty love or headlong ire.
the first sentence was Powell's own quotation from one of his constituents.
The 'Rivers of Blood' speech