
“One must speak about serious things seriously.”
Letter to A.N. Pleshcheev (September 9, 1888)
Letters
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977), Volume Two
“One must speak about serious things seriously.”
Letter to A.N. Pleshcheev (September 9, 1888)
Letters
14 August 1853
Correspondence, Letters to Madame Louise Colet
T. S. Eliot, in Alida Monro (ed.) The Collected Poems of Harold Monro (London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1933) p. xiv.
Criticism
Derrida Jacques, Elisabeth Weber (1995), Points...: Interviews, 1974-1994. p. 115
“Pretty simple. Except for one little problem: it doesn't work!”
various
About Code
“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry painting that speaks.”
Quoted by Plutarch, De gloria Atheniensium 3.346f http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0234%3Astephpage%3D346f.
Variant translations:
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
Painting is silent poetry, poetry is eloquent painting.
See also: Ut pictura poesis
On Jews, to H. R. Haldeman, as quoted in "Nixon: I Am Not an Anti-Semite" by Timothy Noah, in Slate (7 October 1999) http://www.slate.com/id/1003783/
1990s
Variant: But, Bob, generally speaking, you can't trust the bastards. They turn on you. Am I wrong or right?
“Simonides calls painting silent poetry, and poetry speaking painting.”
Whether the Athenians were more Warlike or Learned, 3
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)