It's funny 'cause it's true:
All lyric poems are narcissistic. They are the earliest form of the personal ad. They've been saying for more than a thousand years, "I'm a sensitive, vulnerable, misunderstood, barely solvent, lovable little fellow who would like to meet a person of exquisite taste who is not averse to an occasional roll in the hay." –Charles Simic(Via Giornale Nuovo, which I found through Caterina; it's written by misteraitch, who lives "in an apartment in an hotel in a town on the Baltic coast of southern Sweden" and posts all manner of good and beautiful things.) Posted by languagehat at February 5, 2003 12:43 PM
This reminds me that I failed to acknowledge my source for the quote...
http://www.duke.edu/~tkp1/poetrydefs.htm
This link to the source of Simic's quote is dead. Do you know when and where he said it?
Posted by: Billy at September 17, 2006 09:06 AMI'm afraid I don't; you might write misteraitch and ask if he can retrieve the source (his e-mail is in the left-hand column of this page).
Posted by: language hat at September 17, 2006 10:00 AM