Reynolds Price
Reynolds Price
Reynolds Price, born Edward Reynolds Price, was an American poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. Apart from English literature, Price had a lifelong interest in Biblical scholarship. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth1 February 1933
CountryUnited States of America
continents couple families invent phone students travel
I said to one of my students a couple of years ago, what is it with you people? You never get off the phone to one another, you travel through whole continents to be with one another for 14 hours. And he said, Mr. Price, we had to invent families of our own, our own families disappeared.
aunt bachelor everybody member mumble oldest
Everybody was there. A bachelor aunt or uncle. You would all come to the table, even some stone-deaf member of the family, usually the oldest ... and he would mumble something under his breath.
lice monkeys way
Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for.
hair sunrise brands
Strength just comes in one brand - you. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair combed
tornadoes destructive
The only thing more destructive than a tornado is a family.
healing writing world
Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation—potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn’t trade my life for the world.
reading fiction
The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.
littles mets meanness
I've met little meanness, wherever I went.
civilization cities permanent-things
Cities are the least permanent things in our civilization.