Sam Hamill Quotes

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Just as I wonder
whether it's going to die,
the orchid blossoms
and I can't explain why it
moves my heart, why such pleasure
comes from one small bud
on a long spindly stem, one
blood red gold flower
opening at mid-summer,
tiny, perfect in its hour.

Sam Hamill

If only we could touch the things of this world at their center, if we could only hear tiny leaves of birch struggling toward April, then we would know.

Sam Hamill

Sam Hamill

Sam Hamill

Born: September 5, 1943

Died: April 14, 2018 (aged 74)

Bio: Sam Hamill was an American poet and the co-founder of Copper Canyon Press along with Bill O’Daly and Tree Swenson. He is also the initiator of the Poets Against War movement, which he set up in response to the Iraq War.

Known for:

The Erotic Spirit (1995)
Habitation: Collected Poems (2014)
Love Poems from the Japanese
Avocations, On Poets and Poetry (2007)

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