Letter from Poetry Magazine

Letter to the Editor

BY Stan Leavy

Originally Published: December 03, 2007

Dear Editor,

A trifle, to be sure, but in the interest of intellectual property rights, please note that "nothing human is alien to me," quoted by Ange Mlinko and attributed to Montaigne, became "his" aphorism only after his reading of Terence's second-century BCE play, The Self-Tormentor.