Famous quotes containing the words play and/or stopped:
“I get a little Verlaine
for Patsy with drawings by Bonnard although I do
think of Hesiod, trans. Richmond Lattimore or
Brendan Behans new play or Le Balcon or Les Negres
of Genet, but I dont, I stick with Verlaine
after practically going to sleep with quandariness”
—Frank OHara (19261966)
“I happened to find
Your picture. That picture. I stopped there cold,
Like a man raking piles of dead leaves in his yard
Who has turned up a severed hand.”
—William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)