Showing posts with label modest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label modest. Show all posts
9.12.2022
4.12.2014
accurate and modest
Elizabeth Bishop is spectacular in being unspectacular. Why has no one ever thought of this, one asks oneself; why not be accurate and modest.
—Marianne Moore, in a review of Bishop's North & South (Houghton Mifflin, 1946), The Nation (Sept. 29, 1946).
—Marianne Moore, in a review of Bishop's North & South (Houghton Mifflin, 1946), The Nation (Sept. 29, 1946).
11.25.2010
modest and secret complexity
The fate of a writer is strange. He begins his career by being a baroque writer, pompously baroque, and after many years, he might attain if the stars are favorable, not simplicity, which is nothing, but rather a modest and secret complexity.
—Jorge Luis Borges, “Prologue,” The Self and The Other (1964)
—Jorge Luis Borges, “Prologue,” The Self and The Other (1964)
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