Famous quotes containing the words american, book and/or award:
“I am so tired of taking to others
translating my life for the deaf, the blind,
the I really want to know what your life is like without giving up any of my privileges
to live it white women
the I want to live my white life with Third World womens style and keep my skin
class privileges dykes”
—Lorraine Bethel, African American lesbian feminist poet. What Chou Mean We, White Girl? Lines 49-54 (1979)
“The passion to condense from book to book
Unbroken wisdom in a single look,
Though we know well that when this fix the head,
The minds immortal, but the man is dead.”
—Yvor Winters (19001968)
“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
—Robert Graves (18951985)
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