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"And you are here beside me, small,
Contained and fragile, and intent
On things that I but half recall—"
Yvor Winters (1900-1968), U.S. poet. At the San Francisco Airport (l. 6-8). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press. |
"The rain of matter upon sense
Destroys me momently. The score:
There comes what will come."
Yvor Winters (1900-1968), U.S. poet. At the San Francisco Airport (l. 16-18). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press. |
"Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession, and the professors of science, who are frequently men of great intelligence but of limited interests and education, feel a politely disguised contempt for it; and thus the study of one of the most pervasive and powerful influences on human life is traduced and neglected."
Yvor Winters (1900-1968), U.S. literary critic. In Defense of Reason, foreword (1960). |
"Metal, intrinsic value, deep and dense,
Preanimate, inimitable, still,
Real, but an evil with no human sense,
Dispersed the mind to concentrate the will."
Yvor Winters (1900-1968), U.S. poet. John Sutter (l. 17-20). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press. |
"What calm catastrophe will yet assuage
This final drouth of penitential tears?"
Yvor Winters (1900-1968), U.S. poet. John Sutter (l. 35-36). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press. |
"By practice and conviction formed,
With ancient stubbornness ingrained,
Although her body clung and swarmed,
My own identity remained."
Yvor Winters (1900-1968), U.S. poet. Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight (l. 21-24). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"Reptilian green the wrinkled throat,
Green as a bough of yew the beard;
He bent his head, and so I smote;"
Yvor Winters (1900-1968), U.S. poet. Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight (l. 1-3). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"And one rose in a tent of sea and gave
A darkening shudder; water fell away;
The whale stood shining, and then sank in spray."
Yvor Winters (1900-1968), U.S. poet. The Slow Pacific Swell (l. 26-28). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press. |
"Far out of sight forever stands the sea,
Bounding the land with pale tranquillity."
Yvor Winters (1900-1968), U.S. poet. The Slow Pacific Swell (l. 1-2). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press. |
"The land is numb.
It stands beneath the feet, and one may come
Walking securely, till the sea extends
Its limber margin, and precision ends."
Yvor Winters (1900-1968), U.S. poet. The Slow Pacific Swell (l. 33-36). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press. |
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