Famous quotes containing the words dewitt snodgrass, dewitt and/or snodgrass:
“You still whispered you would not die.
Yet in the nights I heard you cry
Like a whipped child;”
—William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)
“I happened to find
Your picture. That picture. I stopped there cold,
Like a man raking piles of dead leaves in his yard
Who has turned up a severed hand.”
—William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)
“in darkness and in hedges
I sang my sour tone
and all my love was howling
conspicuously alone.”
—William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)