74 quotes found
Poet · American · 1879–1955
American poet (1879–1955)
“Let be be finale of seem.The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.”
“A poem is a meteor.”
“There will never be an endTo this droning of the surf.”
“I placed a jar in Tennessee and round it was upon a hill.”
“The Plot Against The GiantFirst GirlWhen this yokel comes maundering,Whetting his hacker,I shall run before him,Diffusing the civilest odorsOut of geraniums and unsmelled flowers.It will check him....”
“The mind can never be satisfied.”
“It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.”
“Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.”
“Reality is a clich from which we escape by metaphor.”
“It matters, because everything we sayOf the past is description without place, a castOf the imagination, made in sound;And because what we say of the future must portend,Be alive with its own seemi...”
“Be the voice of night and Florida in my ear.Use dusky words and dusky images.Darken your speech.Speak, even, as if I did not hear you speaking,But spoke for you perfectly in my thoughts,Conceiving ...”
“He heard her low accord,Half prayer and half ditty,And He felt a subtle quiver,That was not heavenly love,Or pity.This is not writIn any book.”
“All history is modern history.”
“THE POEMS OF OUR CLIMATEIClear water in a brilliant bowl, Pink and white carnations. The lightIn the room more like a snowy air, Reflecting snow. A newly-fallen snowAt the end of winter when aftern...”
“It was soldier's went marching over the rocks,and still they came in watery flocks,because it was spring and the birds had to come,No doubt that soldier's had to be marching,and that the drums had ...”
“The villages slept as the capable man went down,Time swished on the village clocks and dreams were alive,The enormous gongs gave edges to their sounds,As the rider, no chevalere and poorly dressed,...”
“For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds /Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.”
“Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.”
“If there must be a god in the house, must be,Saying things in the rooms and on the stair,Let him move as the sunlight moves on the floor,Or moonlight, silently, as Plato's ghostOr Aristotle's skele...”
“Weight him, weight, weight him with the sleepiness of themoon.It was only a glass because he looked in it. It was nothing hecould be told.It was a language he spoke, because he must, yet did not kn...”
