Zitate von Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Von Shakespeare läßt sich sagen, daß nie ein Mensch so wenig Wissen in soviel Weisheit verwandelt hat.
Informationen über Thomas Stearns Eliot
Dichter, Kritiker, "Das wüste Land", "Aschermittwoch", Nobelpreis für Literatur/1948 (England/USA, 1888 - 1965).
Thomas Stearns Eliot · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Thomas Stearns Eliot wäre heute 135 Jahre, 6 Monate, 3 Tage oder 49.492 Tage alt.
Geboren am 26.09.1888 in Saint Louis
Gestorben am 04.01.1965 in London
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Weitere 145 Zitate von Thomas Stearns Eliot
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We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
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We know too much and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little.
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We shall not cease from exploration 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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Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin; And breastless creatures underground Leaned backward with a lipless grin.
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What is hell? Hell is oneself, Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to.One is always alone.
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What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone, She smoothes her hair with automatic hand, And puts a record on the gramophone.
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Where are the eagles and the trumpets? Buried beneath some snow-deep Alps. Over buttered scones and crumpets Weeping, weeping multitudes Droop in a hundred A.B.C.'s.
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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?
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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
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Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you.
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Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.
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Yet we have gone on living, Living and partly living.
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You've missed the point completely, Julia: There were no tigers. That was the point.
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Bien agir, c'est être libre - Du passé, du futur aussi. - C'est pour la plupart d'entre nous - Le but, toujours inaccessible, - Nous qui ne restons invaincus - Que pour avoir persévéré.
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L'espèce humaine ne peut pas supporter beaucoup de réalité.
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L'homme qui agit ne souffre pas.
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La culture, c'est toute la manière de vivre d'un peuple, tout ce qui fait la valeur de la vie.
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La tradition n'est pas donnée par droit d'héritage, et si vous y tenez, il faut pour l'obtenir beaucoup de labeur.