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W. D. Snodgrass

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American poet (1926–2009)

Person · Open Library

Born
1926
Works
41

Top works

  • [Northern lights
  • Heart's needle
  • Cinci balade populare
  • Commissioned poems 1962
  • Mioriṭa

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1926-01-05
Active to
2009-01-13

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
62
Total plays
261

William De Witt Snodgrass (January 5, 1926 – January 13, 2009) was an American poet who also wrote under the pseudonym S. S. Gardons. He won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/W.+D.+Snodgrass">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

  • It was the nature of the thing: No moon outlives its leaving night, No sun its day. And I went on Rich in the loss of all I sing To the threshold of waking light, To larksong and the live, gray dawn. So night by night, my life has gone.
  • In darkness and in hedges &nbsp;&nbsp; I sang my sour tone and all my love was howling &nbsp;&nbsp; conspicuously alone.
  • Up the reputable walks of old established trees They stalk, children of the nouveaux riches; chimes Of the tall Clock Tower drench their heads in blessing.
  • Riot in Algeria, in Cyprus, in Alabama; Aged in wrong, the empires are declining, And China gathers, soundlessly, like evidence. What shall I say to the young on such a morning?— Mind is the one salvation?—also grammar?— No; my little ones lean not toward revolt.
  • They wear their godhead lightly. They look out from their hill and say, To themselves, "We have nowhere to go but down; The great destination is to stay."
  • The sleek, expensive girls I teach, Younger and pinker every year, Bloom gradually out of reach.

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