“Never trust a cat, anyway. All they’re good for is stringing tennis racquets.”
October 6 (p. 28)
A Night in the Lonesome October (1993)
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"Recent Poetry," The Yale Review (Autumn 1955) [p. 231]
Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
Variant: It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t make any sense.
Source: City of Fallen Angels
“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
Source: 1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
Context: Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so.
Source: The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats (2002), Ch. 2
Source: Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories
Source: The Space Merchants (1953), Chapter 8 (p. 103)
as quoted by John Horgan, The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age (1996)
This is a variant or paraphrase of The Paradoxical Commandments, by Kent M. Keith, student activist, first composed in 1968 as part of a booklet for student leaders, which had hung on the wall of Mother Teresa's children's home in Calcutta, India, and have sometimes become misattributed to her. The version posted at his site http://www.paradoxicalcommandments.com begins:
Misattributed
Source: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 3 “Blood and Breath and Water” section 1 (p. 146)