William Snodgrass Quotes (7 Quotes)

Sweet beast, I have gone prowling, a proud rejected man who lived along the edges catch as catch can in darkness and in hedges I sang my sour tone and all my love was howling conspicuously alone.

Of all things, only wehave power to choose that we should dienothing else is freein this world to refuse it.

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.

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

After experience taught me that all the ordinary Surroundings of social life are futile and vain. . . .

Before we drained out one another's forceWith lies, self-denial, unspoken regretAnd the sick eyes that blame before the divorceAnd the treachery.

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.