Quotes about american-poet
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 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 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 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 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 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
american-poet books discussion groups ignorant might remained various ways writers
Various on-line discussion groups are ways to find out about books and writers that one might have remained ignorant of otherwise. Marilyn Hacker
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.
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 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 people
It is because the people are citizens that they are with safety armed. Joel Barlow
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 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.