Quotes about american-poet
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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?