Quotes about american-poet
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?
american-poet prone
Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness. Amy Lowell
american-poet brooding dreams guarded quit thousand
Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
american-poet cheerfulness
Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
american-poet
If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance. Anne Bradstreet
american-poet freedom liberation mind
There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream. Archibald MacLeish
american-poet reaction
The reaction has been overwhelming, and I'm just getting used to it. I think I actually, though, could get used to it for a long time. Stephen Dunn
american-poet beauty
I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after. Wallace Stevens
american-poet husbands lives wives
All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives. Delmore Schwartz
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 call entitles however man mere name nature perceive sacred senses term veil
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ''the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.'' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ''Artist.'' Edgar Allan Poe
american-poet congress himself peculiar poet speaks
To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men. Richard Wilbur
american-poet bad good life
Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse. Joseph Brodsky
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It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
american-poet beating
Yet would we die as some have done, beating a way for the rising sun. Arna Bontemps
american-poet bad good thank
I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. Walt Whitman
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I had a lovers quarrel with the world. Robert Frost
american-poet battle best fight hardest nobody somebody stop
To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting. e. e. cummings