
“The prose writer drags meaning along with a rope, the poet makes it stand out and hit you.”
Speculations (Essays, 1924)
Brexit: Tusk says UK MEPs could sit for 'months or longer' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47946256 BBC News (16 April 2019)
“The prose writer drags meaning along with a rope, the poet makes it stand out and hit you.”
Speculations (Essays, 1924)
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“We cannot stem linguistic change, but we can drag our feet.”
Quiddities: An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary (1987), p. 231
1980s and later
Context: We cannot stem linguistic change, but we can drag our feet. If each of us were to defy Alexander Pope and be the last to lay the old aside, it might not be a better world, but it would be a lovelier language.
“I was dragged into this and really wronged, but the truth will come out one day.”
Source: "Disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai anticipated prison in letter to family" in CNN https://www.cnn.com/2013/09/19/world/asia/china-bo-xilai-letter/index.html (23 September 2013)
Twitter post https://twitter.com/murphymike/status/1038557357289033728 (8 September 2018)
2010s, 2018
Quoted by Owen Myers in The subversive genius of RuPaul http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/24914/1/the-subversive-genius-of-rupaul (2015)