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Thomas Stearns Eliot, conocido como T. S. Eliot , fue un poeta, dramaturgo y crítico literario británico-estadounidense. Representó una de las cumbres de la poesía en lengua inglesa del siglo XX.[1]​[2]​[3]​[4]​ Según José María Valverde, en efecto, «la publicación de La tierra baldía 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».[5]​

Eliot nació en los Estados Unidos y se trasladó al Reino Unido en 1914, con veinticinco años. Se hizo ciudadano británico en 1927, con treinta y nueve años de edad. Acerca de su nacionalidad y del papel de ésta en su trabajo, afirmó: «[Mi poesía] no habría 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».[6]​ El crítico Edmund Wilson afirmó de Eliot: «Es uno de nuestros auténticos poetas únicos».[7]​

En 1948 le fue concedido el Premio Nobel de Literatura «por su contribución sobresaliente y pionera a la poesía moderna».[8]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 26. septiembre 1888 – 4. enero 1965  •  Otros nombres Thomas S. Eliot, టి ఎస్ ఎలియట్
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Frases célebres de Thomas Stearns Eliot

“Hacer lo útil, decir lo justo y contemplar lo bello es bastante para una vida de hombre.”

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Sin fuentes

“Así es como termina el mundo, no con una explosión, sino con un lamento.”

Thomas Stearns Eliot libro Los hombres huecos

Fuente: Los hombres huecos.

“Y te enseñaré algo que no es
ni la sombra tuya que te sigue por la mañana
ni tu sombra que al atardecer sale a tu encuentro;
te mostraré el miedo en un puñado de polvo.”

Thomas Stearns Eliot

“Hay épocas en que uno siente que ha caído a pedazos y a la vez se ve a sí mismo en mitad de la carretera estudiando las piezas sueltas, preguntándose si será capaz de montarlas otra vez y qué especie de artefaco saldrá.”

Thomas Stearns Eliot

“La experiencia me ha enseñado que, a la hora de valorar la poesía, cuanto menos se sepa acerca de un poeta y su obra, antes de empezar a leerlo, mejor.”

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Fuente: La aventura sin fin.

Thomas Stearns Eliot Frases y Citas

“No dejaremos de explorar y el fin de nuestra exploración sera encontrar el punto de partida y conocer el lugar por primera vez.”

Thomas Stearns Eliot libro Cuatro cuartetos

Fuente: «Little Gidding», Cuatro cuartetos.

“Abril es el mes mas cruel.”

Thomas Stearns Eliot

“No tememos a la muerte, tememos que nadie note nuestra ausencia; que desaparezcamos sin dejar rastro.”

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Sin fuentes

“Los poetas inmaduros imitan; los poetas maduros roban; los malos estropean lo que roban, y los buenos lo convierten en algo mejor.”

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Sin fuentes

“La mayor parte de los problemas del mundo se deben a la gente que quiere ser importante.”

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Sin fuentes

“Las palabras del año pasado pertenecen al lenguaje del año pasado. Las palabras del próximo año esperan otra voz.”

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Sin fuentes

“Algunos periodistas son escritores fallidos; pero también lo son muchos escritores.”

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Fuente: [Señor] (1997), p. 332.

Thomas Stearns Eliot: Frases en inglés

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

Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering fuel in vacant lots.”

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T.S. Eliot libro The Waste Land

Fuente: The Waste Land and Other Poems

“I have heard the key
Turn in the door once and turn once only
We think of the key, each in his prison
Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.”

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T.S. Eliot libro The Waste Land

Fuente: The Waste Land (1922)

“For he will do
As he do do
And there's no doing anything about it!”

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T.S. Eliot libro Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

Fuente: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

“Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only.”

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T.S. Eliot libro The Waste Land

Fuente: The Waste Land and Other Poems

“All time is unreedemable.”

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T.S. Eliot libro Cuatro cuartetos

Fuente: Four Quartets

“But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.”

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T.S. Eliot

Fuente: Christianity and Culture: The Idea of a Christian Society and Notes Towards the Definition of Culture

“Now that the lilacs are in bloom
She has a bowl of lilacs in her room”

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T.S. Eliot

Fuente: Collected Poems, 1909-1962

“And if all that is meaningless, I want to be cured
Of a craving for something I cannot find And of the shame of never finding it.”

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T.S. Eliot The Cocktail Party

Fuente: The Cocktail Party

“The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.”

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T.S. Eliot

Fuente: Tradition and the Individual Talent: An Essay

“Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit.”

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T.S. Eliot

Fuente: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems

“Because I know that time is always time
And place is always and only place
And what is actual is actual only for one time
And only for one place
I rejoice that things are as they are and
I renounce the blessèd face”

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T.S. Eliot

Ash-Wednesday (1930)

“And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time”

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T.S. Eliot libro Cuatro cuartetos

Variante: We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
Fuente: Four Quartets

“If we all were judged according to the consequences
Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention
And beyond our limited understanding
Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.”

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T.S. Eliot

“Grishkin is nice: her
Russian eye is underlined for emphasis;
Uncorseted, her friendly bust
Gives promise of pneumatic bliss.”

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T.S. Eliot libro Poems

"Whispers of Immortality"; "Grishkin" has been identified by Ezra Pound as having been "Serafima Astafieva" a Russian dancer.
Poems (1920)

“The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
It isn't just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.”

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T.S. Eliot libro Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

The Naming of Cats
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)

“When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city?
Do you huddle close together because you love each other?"
What will you answer? "We all dwell together
To make money from each other"? or "This is a community"?”

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T.S. Eliot

Choruses from The Rock (1934)

“Fortunate the man who, at the right moment meets the right friend; fortunate also the man who at the right moment meets the right enemy. I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival of culture. One needs the enemy… A country within which the divisions have goon too far is a danger to itself: a country which is too well united - whether by nature or by device, by hounest purpose or by fraud and oppression - is a menace to others.”

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Notes towards the definition of culture(1948)

“The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith; and when the ordinary man calls himself a sceptic or an unbeliever, that is ordinarily a simple pose, cloaking a disinclination to think anything out to a conclusion.”

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Introduction to Pascal’s Pensées

“Because I do not hope to know
The infirm glory of the positive hour
Because I do not think
Because I know I shall not know
The one veritable transitory power
Because I cannot drink
There, where trees flower, and springs flow, for there is nothing again”

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T.S. Eliot

Ash-Wednesday (1930)

“The soul of Man must quicken to creation.”

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T.S. Eliot

Choruses from The Rock (1934)

“Redeem
The time. Redeem
The unread vision in the higher dream
While jewelled unicorns draw by the gilded hearse.”

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T.S. Eliot

Ash-Wednesday (1930)

“Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger.
Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.”

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T.S. Eliot

Choruses from The Rock (1934)

“In this decayed hole among the mountains
In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing
Over the tumbled graves, about the chapel
There is the empty chapel, only the wind's home.”

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T.S. Eliot libro The Waste Land

Fuente: The Waste Land (1922), Line 385 et seq.

“O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.”

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T.S. Eliot libro The Waste Land

Fuente: The Waste Land (1922), Line 320 et seq.

“The broad-backed hippopotamus
Rests on his belly in the mud;
Although he seems so firm to us
He is merely flesh and blood.”

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T.S. Eliot libro Poems

"The Hippopotamus"
Poems (1920)

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