September 1, 1939
"woke after a night of bad dreams in which C was unfaithful. Paper reports German attack on Poland." |
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester and "A Ramble in St. James's Park"
"Rochester uses obscenity to achieve a poetic questioning and unsettlings." |
Vaslav Nijisnky and The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky
"I am not to be their judge, but God, will I tell them the truth. By saying the truth I destroy the evil which they have done." |
Thucydides and History of the Peloponesian War
"I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time." |
Wilfred Owen
"All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful." |