Quotes about american-poet
american-poet people
It is because the people are citizens that they are with safety armed. Joel Barlow
american-poet bird broken cannot fast hold life
Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 belly tight
In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
american-poet god good hold human poet realm sticks tries within
The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
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
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.