Famous quotes containing the words robert earl hayden, robert earl, earl and/or hayden:
“Standing to America, bringing home
black gold, black ivory, black seed.”
—Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)
“Luna presence,
foredoomed, already dying,
it charged the room
with plangency
older than human
cries,”
—Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)
“I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“Then you arrived, meditative, ironic,
richly human; and your presence was shore where I rested
released from the hoodoo of that dance, where I spoke
with my true voice again.”
—Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)