Frases de Thomas Stearns Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Fecha de nacimiento: 26. Septiembre 1888
Fecha de muerte: 4. Enero 1965
Otros nombres:టి ఎస్ ఎలియట్, Thomas S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot, conocido como T. S. Eliot fue un poeta, dramaturgo y crítico literario anglo-estadounidense. Representó una de las cumbres de la poesía en lengua inglesa del siglo XX. Según José María Valverde, en efecto, «la publicación de The Waste Land convierte a T. S. Eliot en la figura central de la vida poética en lengua inglesa. [...] La crítica saludó el complejo y oscuro poema [...] como símbolo de una época de desintegración, que trataba desesperadamente de poner algún orden en el creciente caos aplicando mitologías y formas heredadas del pasado».
Eliot nació en los Estados Unidos y se trasladó al Reino Unido en 1914, con 25 años. Se hizo ciudadano británico en 1927, con 39. Acerca de su nacionalidad y del papel de ésta en su trabajo, afirmó: «[Mi poesía] no hubiese sido la misma si hubiese nacido en Inglaterra, y tampoco si hubiese permanecido en Estados Unidos. Es una combinación de cosas. Pero en sus fuentes, en sus corrientes emocionales, viene de Estados Unidos».
El crítico Edmund Wilson afirmó de Eliot: «Es uno de nuestros auténticos poetas únicos».
En 1948 le fue concedido el Premio Nobel de Literatura «por su contribución sobresaliente y pionera a la poesía moderna».
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Frases Thomas Stearns Eliot
„Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in infomation?“
— T.S. Eliot
Context: 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.
„Speech without word and
Word of no speech
Grace to the Mother
For the Garden
Where all love ends.“
— T.S. Eliot
Context: Lady of silences
Calm and distressed
Torn and most whole
Rose of memory
Rose of forgetfulness
Exhausted and life-giving
Worried reposeful
The single Rose
Is now the Garden
Where all loves end
Terminate torment
Of love unsatisfied
The greater torment
Of love satisfied
End of the endless
Journey to no end
Conclusion of all that
Is inconclusible
Speech without word and
Word of no speech
Grace to the Mother
For the Garden
Where all love ends.
„Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.“
— T.S. Eliot
Preface to Transit of Venus: Poems by Harry Crosby (1931)
„Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
:Life is very long.“
— T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men
Context: Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow.
„To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.“
— T.S. Eliot, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
„Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.“
— T.S. Eliot
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.
