Broken Knowledge
Frank Kermode, 4 August 1983
The Oxford Book of Aphorisms
edited by John Gross.
Oxford, 383 pp., £9.50, March 1983,0 19 214111 2 Show More
edited by John Gross.
Oxford, 383 pp., £9.50, March 1983,
The Travellers’ Dictionary of Quotation: Who said what about where?
edited by Peter Yapp.
Routledge, 1022 pp., £24.95, April 1983,0 7100 0992 5 Show More
edited by Peter Yapp.
Routledge, 1022 pp., £24.95, April 1983,
“... of the koan. Emerson’s ‘All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle’ is the germ of a lot of Wallace Stevens; it has the quality of wonder. Poems, then, may grow out of aphorisms; they may also sink into aphorisms, as when Churton Collins scribbles on some famous lines of Milton: ‘We are no more responsible for evil thoughts which pass through our ... ”