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 founder list none shall tomb
Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name. Karl Shapiro
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 brought poems
Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems. Muriel Rukeyser
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 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 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
american-poet bottom heroes represent sleeping waiting wisdom
Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race. Stanley Kunitz
american-poet people
It is because the people are citizens that they are with safety armed. Joel Barlow
american-poetry
Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara. O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac Frank O'Hara
american-poet hand lightly puts
He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we go. We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour. Better than gasoline. James Merrill
american-poet certain disappear man reaches sheets white
If he could sleep on it. He would make his bed with white sheets And disappear into the white, Like a man diving, If he could be certain That the light Would not keep him awake, The light that reaches To the bottom. Donald Justice
american-poet assume atom belonging belongs celebrate good invite lean observing shall spear summer
I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.
american-poet changeless indeed weep
Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep. William C. Bryant
american-poet conscious creation order pure relieved
Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness. May Sarton
american-poet birth darkness faithful gardeners help
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
american-poet future
After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs. Wallace Stevens