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“In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup And talk of the old country--mud and boards, Poverty, The snow falling down and necks of lovers.”
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Louis Simpson
Source : Louis Simpson (2003). “The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001”, p.182, BOA Editions, Ltd.
#Country Quotes
#Fall Quotes
#Grandmother Quotes
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“I gave no prescriptions, And those who have taken my moods for prophecies Mistake the matter.”
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Louis Simpson
Source : Louis Simpson (2003). “The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001”, p.195, BOA Editions, Ltd.
#Mistake Quotes
#Taken Quotes
#Ignorance Quotes
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“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.”
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Louis Simpson
Source : Louis Simpson (2003). “The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001”, p.124, BOA Editions, Ltd.
#Lonely Quotes
#Echoes Quotes
#Discovery Quotes
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“For people may not know what they think about politics in the Balkans, or the vexed question of men and women, but everyone has a definite opinion about the flavour of shredded coconut.”
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Louis Simpson
Source : Louis Simpson (2003). “The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001”, p.293, BOA Editions, Ltd.
#Men Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
#People Quotes
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“All that grave weight of America Cancelled! Like Greece and Rome. The future in ruins!”
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Louis Simpson
Source : Louis Simpson (2003). “The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001”, p.196, BOA Editions, Ltd.
#Rome Quotes
#America Quotes
#Weight Quotes
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“Paranoia imposes its own vision on the external world; it differs from other kinds of visionary experience in that the paranoid wants others to share his view—even insists on it. Paranoia is very like poetic creativity. This accounts for my fascination with certain people in whom this state of mind was evident: ‘characters’ met by chance, whose words and gestures would haunt me for years until, finally, in a poem I was able to dispel them.”
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Louis Simpson
#Creativity Quotes
#Character Quotes
#Views Quotes
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“It's complicated, being an American, Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time.”
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Louis Simpson
Source : Louis Simpson (2003). “The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001”, p.191, BOA Editions, Ltd.
#Complicated Quotes
#Conscience Quotes
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“The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.”
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Louis Simpson
Source : Louis Simpson (2003). “The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001”, p.195, BOA Editions, Ltd.
#Car Quotes
#Used Car Quotes
#Used Quotes
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“Being shelled is the main work of an infantry soldier, which no one talks about. Everyone has his own way of going about it. In general, it means lying face down and contracting your body into as small a space as possible.”
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Louis Simpson
#Lying Quotes
#War Quotes
#Mean Quotes
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“The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.”
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Louis Simpson
#Military Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Long Quotes
