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  • The American Scholar

    Commonplace Book

    Sep 03, 2019 3 minutes
    Collected by Anne Matthews

    And that is why I do not like the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

    —Ogden Nash, “Everybody Tells Me Everything,” The Face Is Familiar, 1941

    Someone goes by wearing a hood in his own darkness not seeing the harvest moon

    —Yosa Buson (tr. by W. S. Merwin and Takako Lento), c. 1760

    What a wild and pleasing outline, a combination of graceful curves and angles! The eye rests with equal delight on what is not leaf and

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