Frasi di Henry James (187 frasi, pagina 3)

Origine: Da L'arte della narrativa; citato in Lilla Maione, introduzione a Robert Louis Stevenson, L'isola del tesoro, traduzione di Lilla Maione, Universale Economica Feltrinelli, X ed., Milano, 2014, p. 31.

Frasi sulla bellezza di Henry James

“Non è una bellezza, ma è bella, due cose molto diverse. Una bellezza ha un viso impeccabile, mentre il viso di una bella donna può avere difetti che servono soltanto a intensificare il suo fascino.”

Henry James

1993, p. 43

“In arte l'economia è sempre bellezza.”

Henry James

Origine: Da Le prefazioni.

“Newman guardò per qualche istante la signora Tristram, lisciandosi i baffi.
«È una vera bellezza?» domandò.
«No»
«Oh, allora è inutile…»
«Non è una bellezza, ma una donna bellissima: due cose assai diverse. Una bellezza non ha difetti sul volto; il volto di una donna bellissima può avere dei difetti che non fanno che rendere più profondo il suo fascino».”

Henry James

1988, p. 49

“Monsieur sa bene com'è Parigi. Una città pericolosa per la bellezza, quando la bellezza non possiede un sou.”

Henry James

1993, p. 47

Henry James Frasi e Citazioni

“Napoli – una città dove il «piacere» è attivamente coltivato.”

Henry James

p. 268

“Il gentiluomo sul divano era un formidabile esemplare americano. Ma non si limitava ad essere un bell'americano; era in primo luogo, fisicamente, un bell'uomo.”

Henry James

1993, p. 19

“La gente è superba soltanto quando ha qualcosa da perdere, e umile quando ha qualcosa da guadagnare.”

Henry James

1993, p. 80

“Odo ancora, mentre scrivo, l'intenso silenzio in cui si cessarono tutti i suoni della sera. Le cornacchie smisero di gracchiare nel cielo dorato e l’ora amica smarrì, per quell'orribile momento, tutta la sua voce. Ma non ci fu nessun altro cambiamento intorno a me, se cambiamento non era vedere con tanto singolare chiarezza. L’oro luccicava ancora nel cielo, l’aria era limpida e l’uomo che mi osservava da sopra i merli risaltava quanto un ritratto nella sua cornice. Ecco perché pensai, con straordinaria rapidità, a tutti coloro che egli avrebbe potuto essere e che non era. Ci fissammo attraverso lo spazio abbastanza a lungo perché potessi chiedermi ansiosamente chi fosse mai, e provare, dinanzi all'incapacità di rispondervi, uno sbigottimento che, a poco a poco, si faceva sempre più intenso.”

Henry James libro Il giro di vite

The Turn of the Screw

“Forse farò un favore al lettore dicendogli come dovrà trascorrere una settimana a Perugia. La sua prima cura sarà di non aver fretta, di camminare dappertutto molto lentamente e senza meta e di osservare tutto quello che i suoi occhi incontreranno.”

Henry James

Origine: Da Transatlantic Sketches, 1875; citato in Perugia, Guide Electa Umbria, 1993.

“L'uomo sano e saggio non si allontana mai dalla ragione e non si concede nessuno svago se non quello del proprio lavoro.”

Henry James

Origine: Da La lezione dei maestri.

“[Su Isabella Stewart Gardner, a proposito di] quelle sere alla sua mensa e nel suo palco, quei tè nelle sue belle sale coperte di quadri, che mi splendono agli occhi della memoria come vere stazioni di salvezza.”

Henry James

Origine: Citato in Aline B. Saarinen, I grandi collezionisti americani, Einaudi Editore, 1977 da La Lettura, Rizzoli Editore, dicembre 1977.

“È sciocco dubitar di sé stessi come sarebbe dubitare del proprio miglior amico: anzi si deve cercare di essere il proprio migliore amico e di vivere così in eletta compagnia.”

Henry James

p. 48

“[…] essendo infatti uno degli svantaggi dell'esprimere avversione, che voi non potete godere nello stesso tempo il credito dell'esprimer simpatia.”

Henry James

p. 484

“Stare a Roma e non far mai una passeggiata a piedi, sarebbe, mi sembra, poco divertente.”

Henry James

p. 251

“Ogni persona porta nella sua religione le caratteristiche della sua natura.”

Henry James

p. 254

“Uno scultore non è un sarto.”

Henry James

p. 275

“Se non fossi venuto a Roma, non mi sarei mai innalzato, e se non mi fossi innalzato, non sarei caduto.”

Henry James

p. 384

“Come dice il proverbio francese, la più bella donna del mondo può dare soltanto ciò che possiede.”

Henry James

1993, p. 40

“Io trovo che si riesce a derivare molto più piacere da questa malinconica esistenza se non si guarda troppo per il sottile.”

Henry James

1993, p. 73

“[…] la passione amorosa separa terribilmente le sue vittime da tutti, tranne che dall'oggetto amoroso”

Henry James libro Ritratto di signora

The Portrait of a Lady

“E non puoi sempre piacere a te stessa, qualche volta devi piacere agli altri! […] ma c'è una cosa che è anche più importante: devi spesso dispiacere agli altri.”

Henry James libro Ritratto di signora

The Portrait of a Lady

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“La consueta salsa di pane del lieto fine.”

Henry James

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“Inoltre, provo a giudicare le cose da solo; giudicare male, penso, è più onorevole che non giudicare affatto.”

Henry James

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“Ci sono poche cose più eccitanti per me, insomma, di una ragione psicologica.”

Henry James

Henry James: Frasi in inglese

“It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to undervalue them.”

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Henry James libro Hawthorne

Hawthorne, ch. VI: England and Italy.

“It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be.”

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Henry James libro Ritratto di signora

Origine: The Portrait of a Lady

“A second chance—that’s the delusion. There never was to be but one. We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”

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Henry James libro The Middle Years

Origine: The Middle Years

“Her memory's your love. You want no other.”

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Henry James libro The Wings of the Dove

Origine: The Wings of the Dove

“The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.”

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The Art of Fiction http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/artfiction.html (1884)

“Of course I was under the spell, and the wonderful part is that, even at the time, I perfectly knew I was. But I gave myself up to it; it was an antidote to any pain, and I had more pains than one.”

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Henry James libro Il giro di vite

Origine: The Turn of the Screw

“Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.”

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Henry James libro The Ambassadors

Origine: The Ambassadors

“I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.”

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Henry James Roderick Hudson

Origine: Roderick Hudson

“The effect, if not the prime office, of criticism is to make our absorption and our enjoyment of the things that feed the mind as aware of itself as possible, since that awareness quickens the mental demand, which thus in turn wanders further and further for pasture. This action on the part of the mind practically amounts to a reaching out for the reasons of its interest, as only by its ascertaining them can the interest grow more various. This is the very education of our imaginative life.”

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Henry James

The New Novel (1914).

“The terrible fluidity of self-revelation.”

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Henry James libro The Ambassadors

The Ambassadors
Prefaces (1907-1909)

“She could never rid herself of the sense that unhappiness was a state of disease – of suffering as opposed to doing. To "do" – it hardly mattered what – would therefore be an escape, perhaps in some degree a remedy.”

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Henry James libro Ritratto di signora

Origine: The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. XLI

“Print it as it stands — beautifully.”

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The Death of the Lion http://books.google.com/books?id=tLE_AAAAYAAJ&q=&quot;Print+it+as+it+stands+beautifully&quot;&pg=PA63#v=onepage (1894).

“The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for muddlement. The great thing is indeed that the muddled state too is one of the very sharpest of the realities, that it also has color and form and character, has often in fact a broad and rich comicality.”

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Henry James libro What Maisie Knew

What Maisie Knew.
Prefaces (1907-1909)

“The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.”

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Henry James libro The Aspern Papers

The Aspern Papers; The Turn of the Screw; The Liar; The Two Faces.
Prefaces (1907-1909)

“Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent value with which it alone is concerned, sniffs round the mass as instinctively and unerringly as a dog suspicious of some buried bone.”

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Henry James libro The Spoils of Poynton

The Spoils of Poynton.
Prefaces (1907-1909)

“The full, the monstrous demonstration that Tennyson was not Tennysonian.”

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Henry James libro The Middle Years

The Middle Years (1917), ch. VI.

“Cats and monkeys — monkeys and cats — all human life is there!”

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The Madonna of the Future http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2460/2460-h/2460-h.htm (1879) <br class="br">The Atlantic Monthly, March 1873 http://books.google.com/books?id=T4cGAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Cats+and+monkeys+monkeys+and+cats+all+human+life+is+there%22&pg=PA293#v=onepage

“The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life, in general, so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it — this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience, and they occur in country and in town, and in the most differing stages of education. If experience consists of impressions, it may be said that impressions are experience, just as (have we not seen it?) they are the very air we breathe. Therefore, if I should certainly say to a novice, "Write from experience, and experience only," I should feel that this was a rather tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, "Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!"”

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The Art of Fiction http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/artfiction.html (1884)

“However incumbent it may be on most of us to do our duty, there is, in spite of a thousand narrow dogmatisms, nothing in the world that anyone is under the least obligation to like — not even (one braces one's self to risk the declaration) a particular kind of writing.”

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Flaubert (1893).

“It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.”

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Letter to Charles Eliot Norton (4 February 1872).

“Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.”

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"Venice," The Century Magazine, vol. XXV (November 1882), reprinted in Portraits of Places (1883) and later in Italian Hours http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/8ihou10.txt (1909), ch. I: Venice, pt. II.

“To live in such a place was, for Isabel, to hold to her ear all day a shell of the sea of the past. This vague eternal rumour kept her imagination awake.”

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Henry James libro Ritratto di signora

Origine: The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. XXIII.

“There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.”

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"Anthony Trollope," Century Magazine (July 1883); reprinted in Partial Portraits (1888).

“Ideas are, in truth, force.”

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Henry James

"Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history." — Henry James (1879-1947), Charles W. Eliot (1930), 2 vol. This namesake was James' nephew, the son of William James. His life of Eliot earned him the 1931 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Misattributed

“The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination… To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.”

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Letter to Charles Eliot Norton (16 January 1871).

“There's no more usual basis of union than a mutual misunderstanding.”

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Henry James libro Ritratto di signora

Origine: The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. XV.

“So here it is at last, the distinguished thing!”

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Henry James

After suffering a stroke (1915-12-02), the first of several which led to his death, as recounted by Edith Wharton in A Backward Glance (1934), ch. 14: "He is said to have told his old friend Lady Prothero, when she saw him after the first stroke, that in the very act of falling (he was dressing at the time) he heard in the room a voice which was distinctly, it seemed, not his own, saying: 'So here it is at last, the distinguished thing!'".

“Mrs Touchett was certainly a person of many oddities, of which her behaviour on returning to her husband's house after many months was a noticeable specimen. She had her own way of doing all that she did, and this is the simplest description of a character which, although by no means without liberal motions, rarely succeeded in giving an impression of suavity.”

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Henry James libro Ritratto di signora

Origine: The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. III.

“In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.”

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"Essays in Criticism by Matthew Arnold," North American Review (July 1865).

“No themes are so human as those that reflect for us, out of the confusion of life, the close connection of bliss and bale, of the things that help with the things that hurt, so dangling before us forever that bright hard medal, of so strange an alloy, one face of which is somebody's right and ease and the other somebody's pain and wrong.”

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Henry James libro What Maisie Knew

What Maisie Knew.
Prefaces (1907-1909)