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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“My father in the night commanding No
Has work to do.”
—Louis Simpson (b. 1923)
“It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
“The treasures of Cathay were never found.
In this America, this wilderness
Where the axe echoes with a lonely sound,
The generations labor to possess
And grave by grave we civilize the ground.”
—Louis Simpson (b. 1923)