The Epigrammatist

LAST MODIFIED: February 22, 2012   SUBMITTED BY: Persephone
FEATURED IN: Hopefuls Pics, PersephonePHOTOGRAPHER: DarrylDarko

PERSEPHONE SAYS: “I know an entomologist, who thinks it not a sin, to catch a harmless butterfly, and stick it, with a pin, upon a piece of paper white, and underneath the same, in letters large and plain, to write, the creature's Latin name. I know another little man, who catches now and then, a microscopic little thought, and goads it, with a pen, to rhyme until we wonder quite, how it can keep so tame, and why he never fails to write, beneath (in full), his name. If you should ask me to decide, the which of them I'd rate, the greater torment of the two, I should not hesitate, It's wicked with a pin to bore, a butterfly-but then, I loathe the other fellow more, who bores me with his pen. -Oliver Herford ”