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Alfred Kreymborg quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary.”
-- Alfred Kreymborg

Source : Alfred Kreymborg, “Old Manuscript”

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“Satan the envious said with a sigh: Christians know more about their hell than I”
-- Alfred Kreymborg

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“Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that the people who really enjoy chess are the dubs and the duffers, experts who have resigned their ambitions, those who play only for pastime, and, of course, the great fraternity of the kibbitzers.”
-- Alfred Kreymborg

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“As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.”
“It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.”
“Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.”
“O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the best, Made up of all the rest, I love thee most.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”
“The table was her stage. The mobile phone was the microphone. And the new moon was the spotlight. That kind of magic only Nana could make it happen.”
“Yet just as the day has two halves, one governed by the sun and the other by the moon, so there are many who are people of the day and who busy themselves with daytime deeds, whilst others are children of the night, their minds consumed with nocturnal notions; but yet there are some in whom the two merge like the rising of the sun and the moon in a day.”
“To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit.”
“Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.”

Source : Last Poems (1922) no. 9
“When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.”
“Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.”

Alfred Kreymborg quotes

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