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Quotations is about words, written and spoken throughout history. Words speak to us through our eyes and our ears. They enrich our lives, allow us to communicate thoughts to others, and sometimes, last for generations. This podcast explores not only the words, but the speaker, author, figure, or character who originated them. To whom were they said or written? What was their intended effect and on whom? What was the originator thinking? Find out each episode and we discover new quotations, some familiar, some not!
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Wednesday Jul 19, 2023
Wednesday Jul 19, 2023
William Faulkner was a Pulitzer Prize winning author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949. At that time, the fear of nuclear annihilation was significant and everpresent and would be for decades to come. Faulkner used his few short moments at the podium to graciously (perhaps begrudgingly) accept his award and then turned his attention to the young authors and writers in the crowd and abroad. He chose to encourage them and forego applause, self-aggrandizement, and monetary gain, all to make them better. He challenged them then as his words challenge us now.
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