Richard Gillman
American poet
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
No doubt if I worked on it, I could evolve some kind of double-talk that would get around the offensive phrase, and make the, to me, face-saving implication; but to hell with that, I have too much respect for the English language, and for your understanding of it, to go in for tergiversation and weasely circumlocution.
—Richard Gillman, American poet, The New York Times, August 25, 1991
Posted on January 15, 2004 at 1:36 PM
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