To Logan Pearsall Smith
Hotel Bristol
Rome. April 6, 1933
I gather that your anthology will be copious, so that you can include all the really good things of any sort, since you intend to choose twelve or fifteen sonnets. I won’t attempt to say which twelve or fifteen I like best. The older I grow the less my taste is comparative; and the sonnets I used to turn to instinctively in the days when we read poetry in my Harvard quarters were the stand-byes that you would think of in any case.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Five, 1933-1936. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003.
Location of manuscript: The Library of Congress, Washington DC