
Stanza xix.
One Word More (1855)
Radio 2 Show (2007–2008)
Stanza xix.
One Word More (1855)
“I told my brain., said my brain. My brain refused to get out of my head. Inconsiderate brain.”
Source: The Hammer of Thor
I know, I know
I am not mad, but soon shall be.
"The Captive"; cited from The Life and Correspondence of M. G. Lewis (London: Henry Colburn, 1839) vol. 1, pp. 239-40.
Source: Collected Poems (1949), Revisitation, Lines from a draft version of "Revisitation" omitted from final version.
Some Reasons Why (1881)
Context: Suppose then, that I do read this Bible honestly, fairly, and when I get through I am compelled to say, “The book is not true.” If this is the honest result, then you are compelled to say, either that God has made no revelation to me, or that the revelation that it is not true, is the revelation made to me, and by which I am bound. If the book and my brain are both the work of the same Infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and the brain do not agree? Either God should have written a book to fit my brain, or should have made my brain to fit his book.
A standard greeting he would make when he was not contemplating some mathematical problem, as quoted in My Brain Is Open : The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos (1998) by Bruce Schechter, p. 10
“My brain: it's my second favorite organ.”
Sleeper (1973)