lit quotes

 

"I can't make him understand the biting's no use" 

                Adah Mencken to D.G. Rosetti on Swineburne

But right, the reserved, the reticent, gives more/than it takes

                John Ashbery. As One Put Drunk Into a Packet Boat

Sylvia Plath, in an anxious moment, described herself as "Roget's Trollop"

                A self-description in a journal entry of late 1955 is harsh but apt: "Roget's  trollop, parading words and tossing off bravado for an audience."