Famous quotes containing the words william, whitehead, english, poet and/or poem:
“Here lies the body of William Jones
Who all his life collected bones,
Till Death, that grim and boney spectre,
That universal bone collector,
Boned old Jones, so neat and tidy,
And here he lies, all bona fide.”
—Anonymous. “Epitaph on William Jones,” from Eleanor Broughton’s Varia (1925)
“Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.”
—Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947)
“Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?”
—Alan Jay Lerner (1918–1986)
“Beneath this sod
A poet lies, or that which once seem’d he.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
“Stir of time, the sequence
returning upon itself, branching
a new way. To suffer, pains, hope.
The attention
lives in it as a poem lives or a song
going under the skin of memory.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)