Elevated discourse
Jan. 5th, 2012 01:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kate_schaeferMy favorite critical sentence in the past random bit of time:
"Naturally, the two poets discussed their differences in the measured tones typically assumed by great artists, which is to say, Quevedo wrote a sonnet making fun of Góngora's nose."
-- David Orr, in "Ways of Saying," a review in the December 11, 2011, New York Times, of Edith Grosman's translation of The Solitudes, by Luis de Góngora
"Naturally, the two poets discussed their differences in the measured tones typically assumed by great artists, which is to say, Quevedo wrote a sonnet making fun of Góngora's nose."
-- David Orr, in "Ways of Saying," a review in the December 11, 2011, New York Times, of Edith Grosman's translation of The Solitudes, by Luis de Góngora
