X. J. Kennedy Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Let you hold in mind, girls, that your beauty must pass Like a lovely white clover that rusts with its grass. Keep your bottoms off barstools and marry you young Or be left--an old barrel with many a bung.”
-- X. J. Kennedy

Source : X. J. Kennedy (2007). “In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems, 1955–2007”, p.12, JHU Press

#Girl Quotes #Carpe Diem Quotes #White Quotes

“I’d be glad to go out on a limb with those Who want nothing beyond what the wind bestows, Were I not bound to roots, dug in deep to bear Never being done grasping for light and air”
-- X. J. Kennedy

#Air Quotes #Wind Quotes #Roots Quotes

“In poetry, only emotion endures.”
-- X. J. Kennedy

#Emotion Quotes #Endure Quotes

“The Purpose of Time is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once”
-- X. J. Kennedy

Source : X. J. Kennedy (2002). “The Lords of Misrule: Poems 1992–2001”, p.5, JHU Press

#Purpose Quotes

“Poetry is probably the one field of writing in which it is a mistake to try to psych out editors. In fact, specific marketing advice can sometimes harm the novice poet by enticing him to pursue fashions. The poet's best hope is to sound like nobody else, The finest, most enduring poetry constructs a marketplace of its own.”
-- X. J. Kennedy

#Fashion Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Writing Quotes

“On solemn asses fall plush sinecures, So keep a straight face and sit tight on yours.”
-- X. J. Kennedy

Source : X. J. Kennedy (1973). “Emily Dickinson in Southern California”

#Fall Quotes #Faces Quotes #Ass Quotes

“In thigh-high yellow leather boots Plump Saphonisba strides. Too bad that, just to hide her calves, Two calves have lost their hides.”
-- X. J. Kennedy

#Two Quotes #Yellow Quotes #Boots Quotes

“I’d be glad to go out on a limb with those Who want nothing beyond what the wind bestows, Were I not bound to roots, dug in deep to bear Never being done grasping for light and air”
-- X. J. Kennedy

#Light Quotes #Air Quotes #Wind Quotes

“As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.”

“Let me explain it to you then. I just had a beautiful girl trust me enough to touch her and see her in a way no one else ever has. I got to hold her and watch her and feel her as she came apart in my arms. It was like nothing else I'd ever experienced. She was breathtaking and she was responding to me. She wanted me. I was the one making her spiral out of control.”

“Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.”

“I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.”

“Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.”

Source : CNN Newsroom With Kyra Phillips and Don Lemon, transcripts.cnn.com. November 02, 2006.

“When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.”

Source : Address at Faneuil Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, on the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1925.

“Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.”

“I think you should know that real-life white people are not all as funny as the ones on 'Seinfeld'.”

“All the Muslims are happy, and Godwilling this earthquake... will be felt right up to the White House.”

“It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?”

Source : "Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje: 'I didn't want to be black. So I joined the skinheads...'" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2012.