Quotes about american-poet
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 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 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 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 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 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 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. Philip Levine
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 game line means mets tonight york
I said to myself I've got to go up there and do it because the New York Mets keep winning every day. The game was on the line and I wanted to go out there and come through for my team. That win tonight means a lot for us. Sammy Sosa
american-poet record
I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.
american-poet
I can't do it every day. They're not going to give me much to hit right now. They're pitching me real well. If I get there, fine.
american-poet home
My situation is different from Mark's. I'm not looking for home runs, I'm looking for the playoffs.
american-poet body days flesh good saying
There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry. Robert Hass
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 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 bad good life
Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse. Joseph Brodsky
american-poet
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 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