Thomas Wolfe frasi celebri
Thomas Wolfe: Frasi in inglese
“I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.”
Origine: You Can't Go Home Again
“O lost,
And by the wind grieved,
Ghost,
Come back again.”
Origine: Look Homeward, Angel (1929), p. 3
Contesto: A stone, a leaf, an unfound door; of a stone, a leaf, a door. And of all the forgotten faces. Naked and alone we came into exile. In her dark womb we did not know our mother's face; from the prison of her flesh we come into the unspeakable and incommunicable prison of this earth. Which of us has known his brother? Which of us has looked into his father's heart? Which of us has not remained forever prison-pent? Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone? O waste of loss, in the hot mazes, lost, among bright stars on this most weary unbright cinder, lost! Remembering speechlessly we seek the great forgotten language, the lost lane-end into heaven, a stone, a leaf, an unfound door. Where? When? O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again.
“Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
Origine: You Can't Go Home Again
The Anatomy of Loneliness (1941)
Origine: Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth
Book II, Ch. 14: Zero Hour
You Can't Go Home Again (1940)
The Anatomy of Loneliness (1941)
Book III: An End and a Beginning
You Can't Go Home Again (1940)
Book I, Ch. 5: The Hidden Terror
You Can't Go Home Again (1940)