Thomas Stearns Eliot citáty
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Dátum narodenia: 26. september 1888
Dátum úmrtia: 4. január 1965
Ďalšie mená: టి ఎస్ ఎలియట్, Thomas S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot bol americký básnik, esejista a dramatik, nositeľ Nobelovej ceny za literatúru. Dlhé roky žil v Spojenom kráľovstve.
Citáty Thomas Stearns Eliot
„To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.“
Zdroj: The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
„Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in infomation?“
Choruses from The Rock (1934)
Varianta: Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Kontext: O perpetual revolution of configured stars,
O perpetual recurrence of determined seasons,
O world of spring and autumn, birth and dying!
The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,
All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to God.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Brings us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.
