Citas de Eliot

• April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too much, the world burgeons with promises it can't keep, all passion is really a setup, and we're doomed to get our hearts broken yet again. I agree, and would further add: Who cares? Every spring I go out there anyway, around the bend, unconditionally. ... Come the end of the dark days, I am more than joyful. I'm nuts.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Crazy, Spring, Passion

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.43, Faber & Faber

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• Estábamos de acuerdo en que la gente ahora tiene miedo de la lengua inglesa. Él [T.S. Eliot] dijo que se debía a que se era aficionado a los libros, pero no se leía lo suficiente. Uno debería leer a fondo todos los estilos.

  Virginia Woolf

  Libro, Lectura, Personas

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• The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence. But I believe the modern writer who has influenced me most is Somerset Maugham, whom I admire immensely for his power of telling a story straightforwardly and without frills.

  George Orwell

  Believe, Tired, Stories

  George Orwell Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). "Las obras completas de George Orwell: Un patriota al fin y al cabo, 1940-1941".

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• But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson or George Washington go? Did George Washington go to college? This idea which we now have that people ought to have these credentials is really ridiculous. Where did Homer go to college?

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Teaching, College, Ideas

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• When you write a song it's sometimes in a desperate moment whn you can't really articulate it. What I love about lyrics is what T.S. Eliot said: 'Good poetry is felt before it is heard.' I'm a believer in that. It's those moments when you sit yourself down, and talk to yourself in the mirror.

  Marcus Mumford

  Song, Writing, Mirrors

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• I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.

  A. E. Housman

  Philosophy, Historical, Personal History

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• The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Age, Talent, Produce

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• Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T.S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that was published in England last year.

  Paul Muldoon

  Years, Judging, Lasts

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• Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at twenty-three—and managed to have no sexual encounter whatsoever?

  David Markson

  Thinking, Years, Paris

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• Gran parte de la literatura antropológica y etnológica describe a pueblos indígenas que viven en unidad con el mundo natural y entre sí. La propia supervivencia exige una ausencia de fronteras entre el mundo interior y el exterior. A veces todavía sentimos la necesidad de volver a ese estado unificado. T.S. Eliot designa nuestro regreso como "a través de la desconocida puerta recordada".

  John Zerzan

  Oneness, Survival, Return

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• Alguien me acusó una vez de ser como Eliot Ness. Tristemente no señor, no soy E.N., ¡pero puedo prometerle que no soy Al Capone!

  Robert Stack

  Being Sad, Promise, Als

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• I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it’s understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don’t have a clue what they’re on about.

  Marcus Mumford

  Believe, Thinking, Band

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• I have but one life to give to adventure. " Alexander Eliot -" Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.

  Matt Bors

  Adventure, Giving, Why Not

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• Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it.

  Gore Vidal

  Novelists, Imitation, Poet

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

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• One of the many things I said was that Eliot Spitzer had one set of rules for himself and one set for everyone else. I never would have imagined it could be so glaring.

  John Faso

  Dijo

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• Sin esos precursores, Jane Austen y los Bronte y George Eliot no podrían haber escrito más de lo que Shakespeare podría haber escrito sin Marlowe, o Marlowe sin Chaucer, o Chaucer sin esos poetas olvidados que allanaron el camino y domaron el salvajismo natural de la lengua. Porque las obras maestras no son nacimientos únicos y solitarios; son el resultado de muchos años de pensar en común, de pensar por el cuerpo del pueblo, de modo que la experiencia de la masa está detrás de la voz única.

  Virginia Woolf

  Pensar, Años, Voz

  Virginia Woolf (1989). "Una habitación propia", p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Virginia, Role Models, Roles

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Who did she know in Raleigh who took the time off to fix a house? Or read Whitman or Eliot, finding images in the mind, thoughts of the spirit? Or hunted dawn from the bow of a canoe? These weren't the things that drove society, but she felt they shouldn't be treated as unimportant. They made living worthwhile.

  Nicholas Sparks

  House, Mind, Dawn

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• i will show you fear in a handful of dust." t.s. eliot we don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.

  T. S. Eliot

  Dust, Absence, Fear Of Death

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• Cuando empezaba a escribir, la gran influencia fue T.S. Eliot y después William Butler Yeats.

  Howard Nemerov

  Writing, Literature, Yeats

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• There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.

  Dorothy Parker

  Best Years Of Your Life, Syntax, Study

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• T.S. Eliot, who learned to swim at the same beach as I did, just threw in the towel and moved to Cheyne Walk. I'm not going to do that but I'm not scared of the open channel between me and Britain.

  William Monahan

  Beach, Swim, Towels

  Fuente: collider.com

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• Any more questions?" I ask, poking him gently in the ribs. "Do you still love me any?" Eliot asks, putting his hand over mine. "A little." "A little?" he asks, pulling away from me. "A lot." "How much?" he asks. "More than chocolate chip cookies." "Mmm" he says, kissing my shoulder. "More than walking on the beach." Eliot kisses me on the neck. "More than . . ." I pause, turning to look at him. "More than?" he asks, kissing my lips. I turn toward him. "Anything.

  Brad Barkley

  Beach, Kissing, Hands

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• Eliot dijo que "la poesía genuina puede comunicar antes de ser comprendida". Lo que quería decir con eso es que la comprensión emocional llega antes de que entiendas el argumento que sigue más adelante en el texto.

  Fred D'Aguiar

  Emotional, Understanding, Argument

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Empecé a alejarme de poetas como Wallace Stevens y Hart Crane y empecé a leer a poetas como Karl Shapiro, Howard Nemerov, Philip Larkin y los poetas británicos importados a través de esa importante antología reunida por Álvarez, entre los que se encontraban Thom Gunn y Ted Hughes. Y creo que estos poetas me dieron la seguridad de que había otras formas de escribir aparte del estilo más bien involucionado del alto modernismo, cuyos sumos sacerdotes eran Pound, Eliot y Stevens, y Crane quizás.

  Billy Collins

  Moverse, leer, escribir

  "Un paseo a paso ligero". Entrevista con Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. 14 de junio de 2006.

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