Ernest Flagg (1857–1947) American architect
Source: Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922), Ch. II
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Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938) Russian poet and essayist
Quoted in Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope: A Memoir (1970), ch. 35
“He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.”
George Orwell book Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Source: Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Frank Herbert (1920–1986) American writer
Dune Genesis (1980)
Context: Reevaluation taught me caution. I approached the problem with trepidation. Certainly, by the loosest of our standards there were plenty of visible targets, a plethora of blind fanaticism and guilty opportunism at which to aim painful barbs.
But how did we get this way? What makes a Nixon? What part do the meek play in creating the powerful? If a leader cannot admit mistakes, these mistakes will be hidden. Who says our leaders must be perfect? Where do they learn this?
Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949) Indian politician, governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949
View by H.R. Prasad quoted in [Critical Response To Indian Poetry In English, http://books.google.com/books?id=4NcHdrqUJpYC&pg=PA11, 1 January 2008, Sarup & Sons, 978-81-7625-825-8, 11–]
Francisco Aragón (1968) poet
On how certain poetry intermingles popular culture in “Q & A: AMERICAN POETRY—Francisco Aragón” https://poetrysociety.org/features/q-a-american-poetry-1/francisco-arag%C3%B3n (Poetry Society of America)
Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948) German artist
1920s
Source: 'Consistent Poetry Art', Schwitters' contribution to 'Magazine G', No. 3, 1924, ed. Hans Richter; as quoted in I is Style, ed. Siegfried Gohr & Gunda Luyken, (commissioned by Rudi Fuchs, director of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam), NAI Publishers, Rotterdam 2000, p. 151.
Ariana Reines (1982) American writer
On keeping poetry apolitical in “INTERVIEW WITH ARIANA REINES” http://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/interview-ariana-reines/ in The White Review (July 2019)
