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William Danforth seeks the source of words attributed to Tomás Masaryk:
"You see how it is: the method must be absolutely practical, reasonable,
realistic, but the aim, the whole, the conception is an eternal poem."
Kit Clayton would like to know who penned, "Life is too important to
be taken seriously."
Howard J. Baumgartel requests the source of, "Your freedom to swing
your fist ends where my nose begins."
A. Sherman Hill Jr. asks to which work by Milton was Emerson referring when
he wrote, "Milton says that the lyric poet may drink wine and live
generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods and their descent
unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl."
"lives well, laughs often, loves much" (September-October). Citing
Anthony Shipps's original reply from Notes and Queries (July 1976, page
312), George Sicherman identified this abbreviated, often misattributed
quotation from Bessie A. Stanley's prize-winning essay on "what constitutes
success," published in the December 1905 issue of Modern Women magazine.
"The Robber Kitten" (July-August). Nelson Foster identified this
poem from R. M. Ballantyne's 1860 book of the same name. Mary and David
Huntington found it attributed to "Comus" in Twice Told Stories
for the Little Ones (ca. 1880). Anthony Shipps noted that the poem is reprinted
in The Cat in Verse (1935), compiled by Carolyn Wells and Louella D. Everett.
Send inquiries and answers to Chapter and Verse, Harvard Magazine, 7 Ware
Street, Cambridge 02138. Readers seeking texts of poems or passages identified
for others are asked to include a stamped, self-addressed, legal-sized envelope
with their requests.
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