Louis Simpson

Louis Simpson

Louis Aston Marantz Simpson (March 27, 1923 – September 14, 2012) was a Jamaican poet. He won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his work At the End of the Open Road.

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    “I gave no prescriptions,
    And those who have taken my moods for prophecies
    Mistake the matter.”
    Louis Simpson (b. 1923)

    The child that is not clean and neat,
    With lots of toys and things to eat,
    He is a naughty child, I’m sure—
    Or else his dear Papa is poor.
    —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

    I’m afraid this man will kill me some day.
    —Nicole Brown Simpson (1957–1994)