Quotes about american-poet
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. May Sarton
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 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. Philip Levine
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 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 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 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 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 wandering
Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands? Arna Bontemps
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 center change road
The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind. Maya Angelou
american-poet fantasy million solitary totally transform
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.
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.
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 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.
american-poet happiness
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. Carl Sandburg
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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.
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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 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 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