Thomas Stearns Eliot citáty

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„Kým hudba trvá, ste hudbou vy.“

„Iba tí, ktorí riskujú, že zájdu príliš ďaleko, možno odhalia, ako ďaleko môže človek ísť.“

„Niekedy sa veci stanú dosiahnuteľnými, ak ich dostatočne chceme.“

„Väčšinu zla na tomto svete páchajú ľudia s dobrými úmyslami.“

„Pravá poézia dokáže komunikovať skôr než sa pochopí.“

„Odmeriaval som si život kávovými lyžičkami.“

„Rany v srdci, aj keď sa časom zahoja, sú na človeku po celý život citeľné.“

„Robiť to, čo je užitočné, odvážne hovoriť, pohrúžiť sa do krásna - to stačí pre ľudský život.“

„Vo svete bez zla by život nestál zato.“

„Televízia je prostriedok zábavy, ktorý umožňuje miliónom ľudí súčasne si vypočuť ten istý vtip, a pritom zostať osamelými.“

„Najväčšie nešťastie na svete vykonajú ľudia, ktorí sa považujú za dôležitých.“

„Polovica škôd napáchaných na svete ide na vrub ľudí, ktorí chcú byť dôležití.“

„Pohlavné vzdychy sú súčasťou nesmrteľných myšlienok.“

„Ukážem ti strach v hrsti prachu.“

„Každý tvorivý duch je aj kritikom.“

„Láska je schopnosť milujúceho vykompenzovať vlastné nedostatky prednosťami druhého.“

„Nezrelí básnici napodobňujú; zrelí básnici kradnú.“

„Ženin osud je spriahnutý s láskou, ktorú prijíma.“

„Cosi odtiahlo moju pozornosť od čohosi, čo odtiahlo moju pozornosť.“

„Ľudstvo neznesie príliš veľa reality.“

„Ak nie ste nad svojou hlavou, ako viete, aký ste vysoký?“

„Svet sa točí a svet sa mení, ale jedna vec sa nemení. Za všetky moje roky sa jedna vec nikdy nezmenila. Bez ohľadu na to, ako ju zamaskujete, táto vec sa nemení: Večný boj Dobra a Zla.“

“Humor is also a way of saying something serious.”

“I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.”

“music heard so deeply
That it is not heard at all, but
you are the music
While the music lasts.”

“And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you
I will show you fear in a handful of dust”

“I can connect
Nothing with nothing”

“I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.”

“We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.”

“For you know only a heap of broken images”

“No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.”

“My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me.
'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak.
'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?
'I never know what you are thinking. Think.”

“This love is silent.”

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.”

“In my end is my beginning.”

“Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.”

“It's not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.”

“Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.”

“Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance”

“People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.”

“Footfalls echo in the memory
down the passage we did not take
towards the door we never opened
into the rose garden. My words echo
thus, in your mind”

“I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.”

“Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it”

“Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.”

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;”

“This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.”

“If time and space, as sages say,
Are things which cannot be,
The sun which does not feel decay
No greater is than we.
So why, Love, should we ever pray
To live a century?
The butterfly that lives a day
Has lived eternity.”

“Where is the Life we lost in living?”

“He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience.”

“There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.”

“time past and time future
what might have been and what has been
point to one end, which is always present.”