American Book Award

Famous quotes containing the words american, book and/or award:

    “In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.”
    —Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)

    “We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.”
    —Morning Prayer, General Confession, Book of Common Prayer (1662)

    “The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
    —Robert Graves (1895–1985)