Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Her quote "Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes" is inscribed on a paving slab in Jack Kerouac Alley in San Francisco (next to the City Lights Bookstore). Ella Wheeler Wilcox's name provided the unlikely inspiration for doggerel by the English humorist Richard Murdoch, which he set to the opening bars of Alexandre Luigini's Ballet égyptien. The first stanza of her poem "The Man Worth While" can be found in Disney's Hollywood Studios Oliver Stone's movie JFK opens with a quote from her: "To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men". The Winds of Fate was quoted by Baroness Margaret Thatcher in her interview by Sir David Frost on BBC World in 1996. The first stanza of "The Man Worth While" is parodied in the movie Caddyshack The opening lines in her poem "The Way Of The World" are recited in Park Chan-wook's film Oldboy. Her poem "Over the Banisters" was adapted into a song for Judy Garland in the film "Meet Me in St. Louis". Her poem "I like cigars beneath the stars" was set to music by an "E. C. Walker," possibly British and not the politician E. C. Walker. The song was recorded by the Huelgas Ensemble in 2010.