Orange Crate Art: David Lehman on The Waste Land

the first poem of the 20th century
in which bad sex is a metaphor
for the failure of civilization

From the poem "November 23," in The Daily Mirror.

Words to live by

The sun is new every day.

Heraclitus

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Every day is a new deal.

Harvey Pekar, “Alice Quinn”

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[O]ur worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.

Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again

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Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try.

Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living

I don’t really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it’s always nice, I’ll grant you, if he has one.

J. D. Salinger, Seymour: An Introduction

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Simone Weil, in a letter

Orange Crate Art

Wednesday, February 2, 2005

David Lehman on The Waste Land

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