T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) “Our emotions Are only “incidents” In the effort to keep day and night together.” A Note on War Poetry, st. 3-4 “The heavy burden of the growing soul Perplexes and offends more, day by day; Week…
T. S. Eliot: Quotations
Category: Literature
T. S. Eliot
(1888–1965) Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM Works: • Eeldrop and Appleplex (1934) • Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry (1917) • Pascal’s Pensées (1958) • Poems (1920) • Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) • The Waste Land (1922) Quotes: • T.…
Jane Austen: Quotations
Jane Austen (1775-1817) “One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.” Emma, chapter 9 “My idea of good company… is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what…
Jane Austen
(1775–1817) Works: • Complete Works (English) • Emma (1815) • Lady Susan (1794) • Letters of Jane Austen (English) • Love and Freindship (1790) • Mansfield Park (1814) • Northanger Abbey (1803) • Persuasion (1818) ◊ Persuasion (French) • Pride and…
Friedrich Nietzsche: Quotations
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) “Without music, life would be a mistake.” Twilight of the Idols “A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.” The…
Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844–1900) Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Works: • Also sprach Zarathustra (German) ◊ Thus Spoke Zarathustra (English) ◊ Ainsi Parlait Zarathoustra (French) ◊ The Antichrist (English) ◊ The Case of Wagner (English) • Die Geburt der Tragödie (German) • Ecce Homo (German) • Götzen-Dämmerung (German) ◊ Homer…
John Keats
(1795–1821) Works: • Endymion: A Poetic Romance (English) • Lamia (English) • Letters of John Keats (English) • Poems 1817 (English) • Poems Published in 1820 (English) Quotes: • John Keats: Quotations Born October 31 1795 London (England) Died February 23 1821…
Stendhal: Quotations
Stendhal (1783-1842) “La beauté n’est que la promesse du bonheur.” (Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.) De L’Amour (On Love), Ch. 17.
Stendhal
(1783–1842) Marie-Henri Beyle Works: • L’Abbesse De Castro (French) • Les Cenci (French) • La Chartreuse De Parme (French) • La Duchesse De Palliano (French) • La vie de Rossini, tome I (French) • La vie de Rossini, tome II…
Edmond-Victor Renoir
(1849–1944) Edmond Renoir in Art: Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) La promenade 1870 Getty Center, Los Angeles Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) Le Pont Neuf à Paris 1872 National Gallery of Art, Washington Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) La loge 1874 Courtauld Institute Galleries, London Renoir,…