Amy Clampitt Quotes

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Gooseberry virtues
take some getting
used to...

Amy Clampitt

Depth isn't everything: the spruce
has no taproot, but to hold on
spreads its underpinnings thin

Amy Clampitt

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

Amy Clampitt

One of the books I read was an old copy of Hans Christian Andersen with strange, very nineteenth-century engravings. [..] There was some kind of awful fascination about those stories; they're not cheerful, they're a glimpse into the adult world, and I think I was entranced by them for that reason.

Telling about her childhood

Amy Clampitt

My grandfather was the great solace. He didn't have a lot of formal education, but he had a feeling for words and a sense of the past, a sense of being involved in something larger than his own immediate concerns.

Amy Clampitt

Amy Clampitt

Amy Clampitt

Born: June 15, 1920

Died: September 10, 1994 (aged 74)

Bio: Amy Clampitt was an American poet and author.

Known for:

The kingfisher (1983)
A silence opens (1994)
The collected poems of Amy Clampitt.
Predecessors, et cetera (1991)

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