Collected Longer Poems

Famous quotes containing the words collected, longer and/or poems:

“Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.”
—English proverb, no. 3908, collected in Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732)

“It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.”
—Greil Marcus (b. 1945)

“Suppertime I float toward you
from the stewpot
holding poems you shrug off
and you kiss me like a mosquito.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)