“I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
by the false azure in the windowpane;”
Source: Pale Fire (1962)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Vladimir Nabokov 193
Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor 1899–1977Related quotes
Abott (2002) “Welcome to the University of Chicago http://www.ditext.com/abbott/abbott_aims.html Aims of Education Address. 2002
Source: The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form (1951), Ch. 1: The Naked and the Nude

To Leon Goldensohn, March 2, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004

Love and Death (1975)