Frases de James Stephens (8 citas)

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“Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.”

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James Stephens libro The Crock of Gold

The Crock of Gold (Charleston: BiblioBazaar, [1912] 2006) p. 13.

“Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory”

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James Stephens libro Irish Fairy Tales

Fuente: Irish Fairy Tales

“The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.”

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Collected Poems (London: Macmillan, 1954) p. xii.

“Because our lives are cowardly and sly,
Because we do not dare to take or give,
Because we scowl and pass each other by,
We do not live; we do not dare to live.”

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"The Road", line 1, in Songs from the Clay (London: Macmillan, 1915) p. 97.

“Speech and prose are not the same thing. They have different wave-lengths, for speech moves at the speed of light, where prose moves at the speed of the alphabet, and must be consecutive and grammatical and word-perfect. Prose cannot gesticulate. Speech can sometimes do nothing else.”

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"Finnegans Wake", in James, Seamas & Jacques: Unpublished Writings (London: Macmillan, 1964) p. 161.

“If I asked her master he'd give me a cask a day;
But she, with the beer at hand, not a gill would arrange!
May she marry a ghost and bear him a kitten, and may
The High King of Glory permit her to get the mange.”

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"A Glass of Beer" (1918), line 9, in Collected Poems (London: Macmillan, 1954) p. 185.

“I would think
Until I found
Something
I can never find;
– Something
Lying
On the ground,
In the bottom
Of my mind.”

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"The Goat Paths", line 89, in Collected Poems (London: Macmillan, 1954) p. 6.

“Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.”

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James Stephens libro The Crock of Gold

The Crock of Gold (Charleston: BiblioBazaar, [1912] 2006) p. 27.

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