Source: Letters of Ted Hughes
“Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.”
“We read in Rabelais of how the Devil took flight when the woman showed him her vulva.”
The Medusa’s Head (1922, p. 274).
1920s
“The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work.”
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 579.
Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters (1899), p. 186.
Context: Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth. The intellectual kings of the earth have seldom been college-bred.
July 14, 1763, p. 121
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol 2
On the poetry of Myōe and ideas of Saigyō Hōshi
Japan, the Beautiful and Myself (1969)
“I became intent on saving him through showing him that he was loved.”
Source: Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958
Source: An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889), p. 10
