10/11/09 19:56
I'll bet you a million dollars the world won't end in 2012. If I lose, well, the world ended. Who'll care about money?
20/10/09 19:48
I heard T.S. Eliot quoted on the radio today. It turns out I heard T.S. Eliot misquoted today. This is what they should have said:
"One of the surest tests [of the superiority or inferiority of a poet] is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest."
-T.S. Eliot
http://nancyprager.wordpress.com/2007/05/08/good-poets-borrow-great-poets-steal/
13/10/09 19:31
"...that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain."
-Ray Bradbury