Famous quotes containing the words stanley, baldwin, government and/or january:
“Then I will no longer
Find myself in life as in a strange garment”
—William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)
“Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)
“... until both employers’ and workers’ groups assume responsibility for chastising their own recalcitrant children, they can vainly bay the moon about “ignorant” and “unfair” public criticism. Moreover, their failure to impose voluntarily upon their own groups codes of decency and honor will result in more and more necessity for government control.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)
“and you undid the reins
and I undid the buttons,
the bones, the confusions,
The New England postcards,
the January ten o’clock night,
and we rose up like wheat....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)