Quotes about american-poet
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. e. e. cummings
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 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 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 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 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.
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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.
american-poet husbands lives wives
All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives. Delmore Schwartz
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.
american-poet life people
The way of life is not as easy as some people think... like me. Mattie Stepanek
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.
american-poet people
It is because the people are citizens that they are with safety armed. Joel Barlow
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 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