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)
“It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.”
—James Baldwin (19241987)
“Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts,a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“and you undid the reins
and I undid the buttons,
the bones, the confusions,
The New England postcards,
the January ten oclock night,
and we rose up like wheat....”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
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