The Best American Poetry 1991 - Notes

Famous quotes containing the word notes:

“Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

“If the heart of a man is deprest with cares,
The mist is dispell’d when a woman appears;
Like the notes of a fiddle, she sweetly, sweetly
Raises the spirits, and charms our ears.”
—John Gay (1685–1732)

“My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)