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William DeWitt Snodgrass Quotes
«And you, whiner, who wastes your timeDawdling over the remorseless earth,What evil, what unspeakable crimeHave you made your life worth?»
«Before we drained out one another's forceWith lies, self-denial, unspoken regretAnd the sick eyes that blame; before the divorceAnd the treachery.»
«I happened to findYour picture. That picture. I stopped there cold,Like a man raking piles of dead leaves in his yardWho has turned up a severed hand.»
«You must call up every strength you ownAnd you can rip off the whole facial mask.»
«You still whispered you would not die.Yet in the nights I heard you cryLike a whipped child. . . .»
«Someone will have to weed and spreadThe young sprouts. Sprinkle them in the hourWhen shadow falls across their bed.You should try to look at them every dayBecause when they come to full flowerI will be away.»
«Sweet beast, I have gone prowling,a proud rejected manwho lived along the edgescatch as catch can;in darkness and in hedgesI sang my sour toneand all my love was howlingconspicuously alone.»
«Of all things, only wehave power to choose that we should die;nothing else is freein this world to refuse it.»
«I haven't read one book aboutA book or memorized one plot,Or found a mind I did not doubt,I learned one date. And then forgot.And one by one the solid scholarsGet the degrees, the jobs, the dollars.»