Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Legacy

Legacy

• 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, in the boiler room portion of the queue for The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.
• Oliver's Stone movie JFK opens with a quote from her: "To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men".
• The opening two lines of "Solitude" are used in the 2010 song "Misery Loves Company" by the EBM / Industrial group Angels on Acid.
• The first stanza of "The Man Worth While" is parodied in the movie Caddyshack when the character Judge Smails (played by Ted Knight) reads the following at the christening of his yacht: "It's easy to grin when your ship comes in / And you've got the stock market beat. / But the man worthwhile is the man who can smile / When his shorts are too tight in the seat."
• The opening lines in her poem "Solitude" 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.