W. D. Snodgrass Quotes

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The sleek, expensive girls I teach,
Younger and pinker every year,
Bloom gradually out of reach.

W. D. Snodgrass
I taught myself to name my name,
To bark back, loosen love and crying;
To ease my woman so she came,
To ease an old man who was dying.

W. D. Snodgrass
Though trees turn bare and girls turn wives, We shall afford our costly seasons; There is a gentleness survives That will outspeak and has its reasons. There is a loveliness exists, Preserves us, not for specialists.

W. D. Snodgrass
It was the nature of the thing:
No moon outlives its leaving night,
No sun its day. And I went on Rich in the loss of all I sing To the threshold of waking light,
To larksong and the live, gray dawn.
So night by night, my life has gone.

W. D. Snodgrass
I would like to find a completely new kind of form, or a new kind of free verse, but I don't think I'm finding it at the moment. I suppose one would always like to start all over again and do something that nobody ever did. I suppose I will be thinking on my deathbed, Why don't I start all over again, and...

W. D. Snodgrass
Actually my then-wife got the news; she was at home. One of the newspapers called up and said, Is this the Snodgrass that just won the Pulitzer Prize, and she said, 'Jesus, I hope so.'

W. D. Snodgrass
I have not learned how often I Can win, can love, but choose to die.

W. D. Snodgrass
You must call up every strength you own
And you can rip off the whole facial mask.

W. D. Snodgrass
In darkness and in hedges
I sang my sour tone
and all my love was howling
conspicuously alone.

W. D. Snodgrass
And you, whiner, who wastes your time
Dawdling over the remorseless earth,
What evil, what unspeakable crime
Have you made your life worth?

W. D. Snodgrass
One by one the solid scholars
Get the degrees, the jobs, the dollars.

W. D. Snodgrass