literary quote of the day (10/22/10)

“I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
By the false azure of the windowpane”

John Shade, in Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov


and a bonus quote, since I missed yesterday…

“My commentary to this poem, now in the hands of my readers, represents an attempt to sort out those echoes and wavelets of fire, and pale phosphorescent hints, and all the many subliminal debts to me."

Charles Kinbote, in Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov