"My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity."

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Source : "Hayden Carruth, Poet and Critic, Dies at 87" by William Grimes, www.nytimes.com. September 30, 2008.

Hayden Carruth

#Thinking Quotes #Natural Quotes #States Quotes

“Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do.”
“The contemporary memoir is playing an important role in at least just bringing certain relationships out into the open in American society, and also it's a place where the novel of development, the novel of consciousness, has gone.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Never let a crisis go to waste”
“Permit me voyage, love, into your hands...”

Source : Hilton Landry, Elaine Landry, Robert J. DeMott, Hart Crane (1973). “A concordance to the poems of Hart Crane”, Scarecrow Pr
“I think it's a very stark marker of what kind of president we have that, from all available evidence, Donald Trump has not read a book, as an adult. This is not someone who sits down in the evening to consider the latest bestseller, let alone Tolstoy - but who is very very active on this medium that requires no discipline and no attention and no empathy. It is all about retweeting praise of oneself or very quickly or poorly considered, ill-typed, misspelled diatribes against other people.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.”

Source : 'The Man with the Hoe' (1899)
“There is a yearning for people to return to elementary moral virtues, such as integrity and commitment. We distrust people who have no centering of values. We greatly respect businessmen, for example, if they display those virtues, even if we don't necessarily agree with the people.”
“As long as my work continues to speak for itself outside of what I look like, I'm okay.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com

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