Snodgrass

Famous quotes containing the word snodgrass:

“They wear their godhead lightly.
They look out from their hill and say,
To themselves, “We have nowhere to go but down;
The great destination is to stay.””
—William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)

“The sleek, expensive girls I teach,
Younger and pinker every year,
Bloom gradually out of reach.”
—William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)

“Before we drained out one another’s force
With lies, self-denial, unspoken regret
And the sick eyes that blame; before the divorce
And the treachery.”
—William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)