A handsome boxed-set of inspiring quotations from four of our most revered forefathers: Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln.
The psycholinguist Steven Pinker once wrote that he has “never met a person who is not interested in language.” That universal fascination with words and language is the spirit that pervades Paul McFedries’ book Quote, Words, Unquote. Using more than 1,200 quotations from more than 800 authors, the book illuminates nearly every aspect of language: neologisms and names; puns and proverbs; truth and lies; speaking and silence. The French priest and poet Joseph Roux said that “a fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit.” Consider Quote, Words, Unquote to be your personal collection of linguistic diamonds.
Featuring the most memorable quotes by and about Marilyn Monroe, a nostalgic fan’s gift book highlights rarely seen photographs that offer insight into her daily life and personal thoughts.
Book by Allison Tyler Jones
First published in 1998 as the much acclaimed Concise Dictionary of Foreign Quotations, and now repackaged in fresh, convenient pocket-sized editions, here are famous sayings in five languages – Latin, French, Italian, German and Spanish – each available as individual paperbacks for the first time.
“One of the best-read men in the Western world” is how Poetry Review describes Irish poet-critic Dennis O’Driscoll. Quote Poet Unquote, his compilation of contemporary quotations on all things poetry-related, proves that judgment spot on. The book grew out of O’Driscoll’s column “Pickings and Choosings” for Poetry Ireland Review, and contains nearly two thousand smart sayings obsessively gleaned from six hundred sources—including powerhouse critics, prize-winning poets, world leaders, and newspaper headlines. The voices in this volume are by turns provocative, deadpan, humorous, and inspirational:
“If you dribble past five defenders, it isn’t called sheer prose.”—Tom Leonard
“I do not give the honorific name of ‘poetry’ to the primitive and the unaccomplished.”—Helen Vendler, The New York Times
“I started a PhD in English at the University of Chicago because I loved poetry—which I now realize is like saying I studied vivisection because I loved dogs.”—Michael Donaghy, Verse
Organized by headings as forthright as “What Is It Anyway?” as playful as “Prose and Cons” and “No, Thanks” (on bad poetry), this collection is both a reference work and a supremely entertaining take on the poetry world. Quote Poet Unquote offers incontrovertible evidence—thousands of pieces of it—that poetry, and the passionate discourse it generates, is alive and kicking.
Dennis O’Driscoll, former editor of Poetry Ireland Review, is the author of seven books of poetry and a collection of essays. He lives in Ireland.
