Showing posts with label Quote sourcing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quote sourcing. Show all posts
Monday, September 24, 2012

From a Commonplace Book

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There is no use talking to the ignorant about lies, for they have no criteria. - Ezra Pound, "The Constant Preaching to the Mob...
Monday, July 16, 2012

The Evolution of Section 1 of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself"

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I have long known that the first edition of Walt Whitman's seminal book of poetry Leaves of Grass , published in 1855, was much shorter ...
Thursday, February 09, 2012

Theodorides's Epigram (and Diverse Tangentially Related Matters)

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A shipwrecked sailor, buried on this coast, Bids you set sail. Full many a gallant bark, when we were lost, Weathered the gale. -- Theodorid...
Sunday, December 18, 2011

Poem of the Day: Rudyard Kipling Waxes Metaphorical About Fifteenth Century England

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The Dawn Wind The Fifteenth Century At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Win...
Sunday, November 20, 2011

Two Poets Walk Into a Pub

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...Except they never met, really, and it wasn't a pub, it was a bar. Maybe I should back up. A commentator with the delightful * handle...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Sourcing a Superlative Cento (Accidental Poetry Month, Part 13)

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Centos -- poems composed by quoting lines from previously existing poems -- have been mentioned on this blog before ; in the latter case, I...
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Poem of the Day: Robbing God

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I first read the line "If I slack my hands, I rob God: for God cannot make Stradivarius violins without Stradivarius" quoted, just...
Friday, December 31, 2010

A Final Quote for 2010

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The pathos of death is this, that when the days of one's life are ended, those days that were so crowded with business and felt so heavy...
Thursday, March 06, 2008

Poem of the Day: Harry Mathews, "The Maoist's Regrets"

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A cento (pronounced with a soft c -- "sento") is a poem made up entirely of lines from other poems. (One I like is Tom Disch'...
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Friday, February 22, 2008

Postscript: Madison on War

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The worries of the founders about war as the engine of tyranny are famous. But in trying to find online sources to link to in the above pie...
Sunday, September 02, 2007

"I quote others only in order the better to express myself"

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So my recent mucking about with quotes got me to thinking about a Montaigne quote that I've long loved and frequently quoted: "I q...
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

"Happiness is the Exercise of Vital Powers, Along Lines of Excellence, in a Life Affording Them Scope"

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A wonderful sentiment. But who said it? It seems to have been popularized by the television show Babylon 5 , which used "The Exercise ...
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Thursday, May 17, 2007

Does Anyone Know the Source of This Quote?

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Moses Hadas is credited all over as the author of the famous book review put-down "This book fills a much-needed gap." But no...
Sunday, April 29, 2007

Milan Kundera, Philip Roth and a Mangled Quotation

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Preparing for a class tomorrow (in which I'm teaching Philip Roth's marvelous novel The Human Stain ), I was looking up a quote I re...
Sunday, June 25, 2006

In Which the Author Distracts Himself from Impending Global Disaster with Minor Literary Research

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While I was seeking for a link for my previous post (which I have, contrary to blogging custom, left higher on the blog than this one since...