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"What you say about the effect of Erasmus is more than interesting, but the truth is that what I like about Erasmus is a certain chic. He would be horrified to know, as you may be, that it is THE EPITOME OF ADAGES that I go for. He must have been a very dull person in reality. On of my early idols was Thomas More, who was one of his friends. But, after all, just what keeps Thomas More alive is his sense of civility, so what keeps Erasmus alive is the sense of his chic. That he ever mattered in any other respect somehow doesn't interest me."
Wallace Stevens to Henry Church, 12 June 1942 |