Yvonne Vera (1964–2005) Zimbabwean writer
Opening Spaces: An Anthology of Contemporary African Women's Writing, August 11, 2008 https://www.amazon.com/Opening-Spaces-Anthology-Contemporary-African/dp/0435910108
“In Rome much pamphleteering took the form of verses and songs, circulated orally, or of libelli, defamatory placards or broadsheets”
whence our word "libel"
Source: Democracy Ancient And Modern (Second Edition) (1985), Chapter 5, Censorship in Classical Antiquity, p. 150
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Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
"The Divine Comedy" (1977)
Context: Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song.
“Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong,
And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.”
John Keats To George Felton Mathew
"To George Felton Mathew" http://www.bartleby.com/126/11.html (November 1815)
“I made these little verses, another took the honor.”
Hos ego versiculos feci, tulit alter honores.
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Epigram attributed to Virgil in Donatus' Life of Virgil.
Attributed
“But the form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.”
Donald Hall (1928–2018) American writer
From his essay 'Goatfoot, Milktongue, Twinbird' in the book of the same title. 1978. ISBN 0-472-40000-2.
Epifanio de los Santos (1871–1928) Filipino politician
As a quote in Quirino & Hilario's "Short History of Tagalog Literature" in Thinking for Ourselves. Manila Oriental Co. 1924, p. 56-57.
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Letter to Lord Stamfordham, the King's secretary (20 February 1924), quote in Leo McKinstry, Rosebery: Statesman in Turmoil (John Murray, 2006), p. 526.
Salman Rushdie book Imaginary Homelands
Imaginary Homelands (1992)
Context: Those who oppose the novel most vociferously today are of the opinion that intermingling with a different culture will inevitably weaken and ruin their own. I am of the opposite opinion. The Satanic Verses celebrates hybridity, impurity, intermingling, the transformation that comes of new and unexpected combinations of human beings, cultures, ideas, politics, movies, songs. It rejoices in mongrelization and fears the absolutism of the Pure. Melange, hotchpotch, a bit of this and a bit of that is how newness enters the world. It is the great possibility that mass migration gives the world… The Satanic Verses is for change-by-fusion, change-by-conjoining. It is a love song to our mongrel selves.
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Source: Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 83