Quote

The sleek, expensive girls I teach, Younger and pinker every year, Bloom gradually out of reach.

W. D. Snodgrass

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

W. D. Snodgrass
Age: 83 †
Born: 1926
Born: January 5
Died: 2009
Died: January 13
Poet
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
Beaver Falls
Pennsylvania
Teach
Sleek
Year
Academia
Girl
Bloom
Women
Gradually
Every
Expensive
Years
Younger
Girls
Reach

More quotes by W. D. Snodgrass

Image
I taught myself to name my name, To bark back, loosen love and crying To ease my woman so she came, To ease an old man who was dying.
W. D. Snodgrass
Image
in darkness and in hedges I sang my sour tone and all my love was howling conspicuously alone.
W. D. Snodgrass
Image
I have not learned how often I Can win, can love, but choose to die.
W. D. Snodgrass
Image
And you, whiner, who wastes your time Dawdling over the remorseless earth, What evil, what unspeakable crime Have you made your life worth?
W. D. Snodgrass
Image
I've been accused of humanizing the Nazis, to which I can only say, you can't blame me for that. God did that. Go talk to him. It's a strange thing for an atheist to say.
W. D. Snodgrass
Image
You must call up every strength you own And you can rip off the whole facial mask.
W. D. Snodgrass