Famous quotes containing the words dewitt snodgrass, dewitt and/or 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.”
—William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)
“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.”
—William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)
“in darkness and in hedges
I sang my sour tone
and all my love was howling
conspicuously alone.”
—William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)