Anne Carson, “Short Talks: Introduction”:
I will do anything to avoid boredom. It is the task of a lifetime. You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
Ogden Nash, “Put Back Those Whiskers, I Know You”:
There is one fault I must find with the twentieth century,
And I’ll put it in a couple of words: Too adventury.
What’d I like would be some nice dull monotony
If anyone’s gotony.
