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With us, when you speak of 'the river,' though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the shifting, unappeasable god of the country, feared and loved the Mississippi.

William Alexander Percy

As with all great teachers, his curriculum was an insignificant part of what he communicated. From him you didn't learn a subject, but a life...Tolerance and justice, fearlessness and pride, reverence and pity, are learned in a course on long division if the teacher has those qualities...

William Alexander Percy

It is a very nice world-that is, if you remember that while morals are all-important between the Lord and His creatures, what counts between one creature and another is good manners.

William Alexander Percy

I have a need of silence and of stars.
Too much is said too loudly. I am dazed.
The silken sound of whirled infinity
Is lost in voices shouting to be heard…

William Alexander Percy

And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France?

William Alexander Percy

I suspect anyway that the important things we learn we never remember because they become a part of us, we absorb them...we don't absorb multiplication tables.

William Alexander Percy

William Alexander Percy

William Alexander Percy

Born: May 14, 1885

Died: January 21, 1942 (aged 56)

Bio: William Alexander Percy, was a lawyer, planter, and poet from Greenville, Mississippi. His autobiography Lanterns on the Levee became a bestseller. His father LeRoy Percy was the last United States Senator from Mississippi elected by the legislature.

Known for:

Lanterns On The Levee (1941)
In April Once (1920)
Sappho in Levkas: And Other Poems (1915)
Enzio's Kingdom: And Other Poems (1924)

William Alexander Percy on Wikipedia

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