Paleontologist Stung

Robert Graves
On English Poetry
(1922)

Appendix: — The Dangers of Definition

[…] let the Dictionary be a hive of living things and not a museum of minutely ticketed fossils.

And this bon mot like a bee caught in amber was found in a library, a place like neither a hive nor a museum and yet so like both.

And so for day 2465
12.09.2013

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