Famous quotes containing the words twelve and/or poems:
“The family story tells, and it was told true,
of my great-grandfather who begat eight
genius children and bought twelve almost new
grand pianos. He left a considerable estate
when he died.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.”
—Muriel Rukeyser (19131980)