Quotes about american-poet
american-poet partisan paul review thinks
He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors. Randall Jarrell
american-poet apparently best people
There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
american-poet side
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
american-poet life people
The way of life is not as easy as some people think... like me. Mattie Stepanek
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 brought poems
Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems. Muriel Rukeyser
american-poet itself shows
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint. Marianne Moore
american-poet god
God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. Amiri Baraka
american-poet art finally forces revere understanding
Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.
american-poet
This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.
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 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 mind
Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
american-poet life
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
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 best books government lets people
Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.
american-poet simplest wants
In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where she wants and gets up and goes.
american-poet beautiful beauty charming difference notices woman
There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
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 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 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 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 future
After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs. Wallace Stevens
american-poet joseph mary number past pushed wings
Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so much as an "excuse me". Typical.
american-poet fleeing grown men menu posted seen
Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.
american-poet brown class though york
Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half.
american-poet consistency
Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar.
american-poet
I'll be me, but I don't like it. William Stafford
american-poet people starts
I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?