WIST Quotations

Antrim, Minna -- Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions (1902)

Dave — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 21:49:52 +0000

Envy none. Every heart has some secret chamber of horrors, and those who seem the most gay have often the grimmest skeletons.

Minna Antrim (1861-1950) American epigrammatist, writer
Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions (1902)
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Teasdale, Sara -- “The Look,” Love Songs (1918)

Dave — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 18:30:42 +0000

Strephon kissed me in the spring,
Robin in the fall,
But Colin only looked at me
And never kissed at all.

Strephon’s kiss was lost in jest,
Robin’s lost in play,
But the kiss in Colin’s eyes
Haunts me night and day.

Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) American lyrical poet
“The Look,” Love Songs (1918)
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Berlin, Irving -- “A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody” (1919)

Dave — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:51:01 +0000

A pretty girl is like a melody
That haunts you night and day,
Just like the strain of a haunting refrain,
She’ll start upon a marathon
And run around your brain.

Irving Berlin (1888-1989) American songwriter [b. Isidore Beilin]
“A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody” (1919)

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr. -- Article (1867-01), “The Guardian Angel,” ch. 3 “Antecedents,” Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 19, No. 91

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames […] We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1867-01), “The Guardian Angel,” ch. 3 “Antecedents,” Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 19, No. 91
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Collected in The Guardian Angel, ch. 3 (1867).