Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Tom Bailey
11 November 1836 - 19 March 1907
Birthplace: Portsmouth, New Hampshire
American author, poet, and editor; long-time editor of The Atlantic Monthly
“A man is known by the company his mind keeps.”
~Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American author & editor
“Leaves From a Notebook” (1903) Ponkapog Papers, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., p. 40; online via University of Toronto & Internet Archive, www.archive.org
Extended excerpt: [From Aldrich’s book of “miscellaneous notes and essays.” The quote Aldrich is citing – “high-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy” is from English poet Philip Sidney’s An Apology of Poetry, or The Defence of Poesy (1581)]
“A man is known by the company his mind keeps. To live continually with noble books, with “high-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy,” teaches the soul good manners.”
Source link: Ponkapog Papers (1903) online via Internet Archive: https://archive.org/stream/ponkapogpapers00aldruoft#page/40/mode/2up/search/company+his+mind
“The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.”
~Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American author & editor
“Leaves From a Notebook” (1903) Ponkapog Papers, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., p. 8; online via University of Toronto & Internet Archive, www.archive.org
Extended excerpt: [From Aldrich’s book of “miscellaneous notes and essays”] “Polonius, in the play, gets killed – and not any too soon. If it only were practicable to kill him in real life! A story – to be called The Passing of Polonius – in which a king issues a decree condemning to death every long-winded, didactic person in the kingdom, irrespective of rank, and is himself instantly arrested and decapitated. The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.” (pp. 7-8)
Source link: Ponkapog Papers (1903) online via Internet Archive: https://archive.org/stream/ponkapogpapers00aldruoft#page/8/mode/2up/search/tediousness
“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – that is to triumph over old age.”
~Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American author & editor
“Leaves From a Notebook” (1903) Ponkapog Papers, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., p. 46; online via University of Toronto & Internet Archive, www.archive.org
Extended excerpt: From Aldrich’s book of “miscellaneous notes and essays”] “I went there rather depressed, but I returned home leavened with his good spirits, which, I think, will never desert him, here or hereafter. To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – that is to triumph over old age.” (p. 46)
Source link: Ponkapog Papers (1903) online via Internet Archive: https://archive.org/stream/ponkapogpapers00aldruoft#page/46/mode/2up/search/unwrinkled
[/vc_column_text]“True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.”
~Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American author & editor
“Leaves From a Notebook” (1903) Ponkapog Papers, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., p. 42; online via University of Toronto & Internet Archive, www.archive.org
Extended excerpt: [From Aldrich’s book of “miscellaneous notes and essays”] “Facts are not necessarily valuable, and frequently they add nothing to fiction. The art of the realistic novelist sometimes seems akin to that of the Chinese tailor who perpetuated the old patch on the new trousers. True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.” (p. 42)
Source link: Ponkapog Papers (1903) online via Internet Archive: https://archive.org/stream/ponkapogpapers00aldruoft#page/42/mode/2up/search/verbatim
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