Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 (2010), p. 121
“The tempest unleashes an alphabet
letters fall through the apertures of crazy angles
to spell out the future
uprooting the course of invention
and enslaving the masters”
It's In the Wind (1977) "Ceremonies In A Polar Garden"
1970s
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1950's, In: Reminiscence and Reverie, 1951
“Actions, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell characters.”
No. 637
Aphorisms on Man (1788)
“Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.”
Tel cinc cent parolent d'amur,
N'en sevent pas le pior tur,
Ne que est loiax druerie.
"Graelent", line 77; p. 149.
Misattributed
“I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.”
"A meeting of minds", The Guardian, 18 November 2005. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2005/nov/18/classicalmusicandopera.thomasstearnseliot
Attributed
“Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.”
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 66