Thursday, January 8, 2015

Quote: Tennessee Williams

'Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.'

from 'The Night of the Iguana'
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  1. AnonymousJuly 2, 2015 at 1:39 AM

    hello

    love the quote at the top of your blog, do you have a source?

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    1. sallyJuly 2, 2015 at 9:17 AM

      yes, the quote (re. the word 'Undine') is from Seamus Heaney's 'Preoccupations' (1980) p.52, in which he discusses his poem by that name (which can be found in his collection 'Door Into the Dark'), and how it came about. The sentence begins like this:
      "It was the dark pool of the sound of the word that took me: if our auditory imaginations ... etc."

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