Quotes about american-poet
american-poet care happened knows side situation team
Everyone knows that what happened to me is great, but at the other side I care about winning. I care about the team and the situation right now. Sammy Sosa
american-poet wandering
Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands? Arna Bontemps
american-poet dirty ignorant incredibly neat puberty
Oh, it is I, Incredibly skinny, stooped, and neat as pie, Ignorant as dirt, erotic as an ape, Dreamy as puberty - with dirty hair! Karl Shapiro
american-poet founder list none shall tomb
Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
american-poet belly tight
In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
american-poet god good hold human poet realm sticks tries within
The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
american-poet quarrel written
I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world. Robert Frost
american-poet leaves love time
To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. Emily Dickinson
american-poet ditch finds hills leaves maybe poet
But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found. Paul Engle
american-poet brought poems
Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems. Muriel Rukeyser
american-poet dictate enter fixed initial magnetic orbit owns spin wider
Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used. David Lehman
american-poet dull nature rigid school torture unknown weary wild
Unknown to her the rigid rule, the dull restraint, the chiding frown, the weary torture of the school, the taming of wild nature down. John Whittier
american-poet bows enthusiasm heart spirit turns wrinkle wrinkles
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust. Samuel Ullman
american-poet apple blossoms flowers glad infant plant sick silent
A world of blossoms for the bee, Flowers for the sick girl's silent room, For the glad infant sprigs of bloom, We plant with the apple tree.
american-poet human rest worthy
Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul. Jones Very
american-poet busy counting great nice onto projects stay stumble
It would be nice to stumble onto one of those great projects so I could stay busy right through my dotage, but I'm not counting on it. Philip Levine
american-poet consider faithful letter resign studious
I should like you to consider this letter as a resignation; I want to resign as one of your most studious and faithful admirers. Delmore Schwartz
american-poet influenced painting poetry seems thousands
I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not. Kenneth Koch
american-poet exciting forces happiness
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
american-poet billboards lovely shall unless
I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.
american-poet children common composed family occasional unit
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
american-poet played though
He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace. Eugene Field
american-poet simplest wants
In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where she wants and gets up and goes.
american-poet basically edited essential feminist grant literary supported
When I edited Thirteenth Moon, a feminist literary magazine, I basically supported it myself with an essential grant here and there. Marilyn Hacker
american-poet appears fragment observed pay saying transform
I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.
american-poet lovely passes
What is lovely never dies, put passes into other loveliness. Thomas Aldrich
american-poet audiences great
To have great poets, there must be great audiences too. Walt Whitman
american-poet books discussion groups ignorant might remained various ways writers
Various on-line discussion groups are ways to find out about books and writers that one might have remained ignorant of otherwise.
american-poet change eighty people
Let's say I live to be eighty - I'm seventy-one now - nothing I do between now and eighty is going to change the way people think about my poetry.
american-poet bikini mercy nature snow
Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway. Maya Angelou
american-poet clean full onions quick rolling roughly soap veins wet words
My grandmothers are full of memories,Smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, With veins rolling roughly over quick hands, They have many clean words to say, My grandmothers were strong.
american-poet light
If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train. Robert Lowell
american-poet bird learn rather sing stars teach
I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance. e. e. cummings