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“The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.”
Clifton Fadiman“The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.”
Clifton Fadiman, Clifton Fadiman's Fireside Reader“Reading to small children is a specialty.”
Clifton Fadiman, Clifton Fadiman's Fireside Reader“Don't be afraid of poetry.”
Clifton Fadiman, Clifton Fadiman's Fireside Reader“Gratitude is the language of love.”
Clifton L. West III“A cool white, wintry light glazed the buildings on the highest hill: Will’s memorial, the unsightly chimney from the hospital, the modernist cathedral in Clifton. The jumble of styles and eras lent the city the semblance of a medieval Roman town. Laura drove the long way round, up past the Clifton Suspension Bridge, strung like an a engineer’s dream over a river sinking into the mud. Leigh Woods was on the far side, the trees dark, bereft of leaves, clawing at the sky.”
Sanjida Kay, Bone by Bone“Write about society as news and treat it like sociology.”
Clifton Daniel“For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.”
Clifton Fadiman“People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.”
Lucille Clifton“Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.”
Clifton Fadiman“To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.”
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