May 2011
10 posts
“When one reads the verse of people who cannot write poems - people who sometimes...”
– Randall Jarrell, “A Verse Chronicle”
“Whitman is often written about, either approvingly or disapprovingly, as if he...”
– Randall Jarrell, “Some Lines from Walt Whitman”
“The writer’s real dishonesty is to give an easy paraphrase of the hard...”
– Randall Jarrell
“Twain never said it. The quote is actually ‘I have never killed any one, but I...”
– Tweeting Twain Quotes That Never Were, regarding the recently popular pseudo-Twain quote “I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.” (via nickdouglas)
