Famous quotes containing the words reed and/or played:
“And the frigid burnings of purgatory will not be touched
By any emollient.”
—Henry Reed (1914–1986)
“It has been played once more. I think you exist only
To tease me into doing it, on your level, and then you aren’t there
Or have adopted a different attitude. And the poem
Has set me softly down beside you. The poem is you.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)