HARVARD SQUARE COMMENTARY
August 13, 2007
Wisdom from Polonius
Emily Dickinson
Fame is a bee.
It has a song--
It has a sting--
Ah, too, it has a wing.
Francis Bacon
Certainly fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swoln, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Pablo Picasso
Now there is fame! Of all—hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public—fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.
Chinese Proverb
Some people fear gaining fame the way pigs fear gaining weight.
John Wolcot
What rage for fame attends both great and small!
Better be damned than mentioned not at all.
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