John Godfrey Saxe: Citations en anglais
"The Poet's License".
The Masquerade and Other Poems (1866)
"The Blindmen and the Elephant", a poem based on ancient parables of blind men and an elephant.
“Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.”
As quoted in University Chronicle. University of Michigan (27 March 1869) books.google.de http://books.google.de/books?id=cEHiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA164, Daily Cleveland Herald (29 March 1869), McKean Miner (22 April 1869), and "Quote... Misquote" http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/21/magazine/27wwwl-guestsafire-t.html by Fred R. Shapiro in The New York Times (21 July 2008); similar remarks have long been attributed to Otto von Bismarck, but this is the earliest known quote regarding laws and sausages, and according to Shapiro's research, such remarks only began to be attributed to Bismarck in the 1930s.
"The Way of the World".
Variante: A youth would marry a maiden,
For fair and fond was she;
But their sires disputed about the Mass,
And so it might not be.
"The Blindmen and the Elephant".
"Early Rising"; compare: "The healthy-wealthy-wise affirm, That early birds obtain the worm — (The worm rose early too!)", Frederick Locker-Lampson.
"The Poet's License".
The Masquerade and Other Poems (1866)
"I'm growin old.
And so it is the poet comes
And revels in her bowers,
And, — though another hold the land,
Is owner of the flowers.
"The Poet's License".
The Masquerade and Other Poems (1866)
