Quotes about american-poet
american-poet life people
The way of life is not as easy as some people think... like me. Mattie Stepanek
american-poet quarrel written
I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world. Robert Frost
american-poet leaves love time
To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. Emily Dickinson
american-poet human rest worthy
Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul. Jones Very
american-poet knocked mountain moves named quite swear took
They, that unnamed "they," they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up-and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me. Gregory Corso
american-poet criticized english poet poets recently
American poets have been criticized for anything you can think of. For being too English, recently for not being English enough. Philip Levine
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Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara. O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac Frank O'Hara
american-poet busy counting great nice onto projects stay stumble
It would be nice to stumble onto one of those great projects so I could stay busy right through my dotage, but I'm not counting on it.
american-poet apple blossoms flowers glad infant plant sick silent
A world of blossoms for the bee, Flowers for the sick girl's silent room, For the glad infant sprigs of bloom, We plant with the apple tree.
american-poet lovely passes
What is lovely never dies, put passes into other loveliness. Thomas Aldrich
american-poet audiences great
To have great poets, there must be great audiences too. Walt Whitman
american-poet consider faithful letter resign studious
I should like you to consider this letter as a resignation; I want to resign as one of your most studious and faithful admirers. Delmore Schwartz
american-poet center change road
The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind. Maya Angelou
american-poet care happened knows side situation team
Everyone knows that what happened to me is great, but at the other side I care about winning. I care about the team and the situation right now. Sammy Sosa
american-poet dirty ignorant incredibly neat puberty
Oh, it is I, Incredibly skinny, stooped, and neat as pie, Ignorant as dirt, erotic as an ape, Dreamy as puberty - with dirty hair! Karl Shapiro
american-poet hand lightly puts
He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we go. We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour. Better than gasoline. James Merrill
american-poet certain disappear man reaches sheets white
If he could sleep on it. He would make his bed with white sheets And disappear into the white, Like a man diving, If he could be certain That the light Would not keep him awake, The light that reaches To the bottom. Donald Justice
american-poet assume atom belonging belongs celebrate good invite lean observing shall spear summer
I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.
american-poet wandering
Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands? Arna Bontemps
american-poet fantasy million solitary totally transform
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.
american-poet cause destroys discerning forces habitual lose men physical power protecting totally
A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression. Joel Barlow
american-poet appears fragment observed pay saying transform
I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.
american-poet happiness
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. Carl Sandburg
american-poet
I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
american-poet grows kitten trouble
The trouble with a kitten is that when it grows up, it's always a cat.
american-poet changing external flows indeed matters onward prominent
These are matters of external history. They are indeed prominent objects, often changing and giving a new direction to the current; but they tell us not why it flows onward and will ever flow.