Lola Ridge quotes

“Life You have been good to me.... You have not made yourself too dear to juggle with.”
-- Lola Ridge

Source : Lola Ridge (1920). “Sun-up, and Other Poems”

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“Out of the night you burn, Manhattan, In a vesture of gold-- Spun of innumerable arcs, Flaring and multiplying-- Gold at the uttermost circles fading Into the tenderest hint of jade, Or fusing in tremulous twilight blues, Robing the far-flung offices, Scintillant-storied, forking flame, Or soaring to luminous amethyst Over the steeples aureoled.”
-- Lola Ridge

Source : Lola Ridge (1918). “The Ghetto, and Other Poems”

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“Night calls to the sandhills and gathers them under her. She pushes away cities because their sharp lights hurt her soft breast. Even candles make a sore place when they stick in the night.”
-- Lola Ridge

Source : Lola Ridge (1920). “Sun-up, and Other Poems”

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“I shall know you, secrets by the litter you have left and by your bloody footprints.”
-- Lola Ridge

Source : Lola Ridge (1920). “Sun-up, and Other Poems”

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“Let me cradle myself back Into the darkness Of the half shapes ... Of the cauled beginnings ... Let me stir the attar of unused air, Elusive ... ironically fragrant As a dead queen's kerchief ... Let me blow the dust from off you ... Resurrect your breath Lying limp as a fan In a dead queen's hand.”
-- Lola Ridge

Source : Lola Ridge (1920). “Sun-up, and Other Poems”

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“As for the common men apart, Who sweat to keep their common breath, And have no hour for books or art-- What dreams have these to hide from death!”
-- Lola Ridge

Source : Lola Ridge, Daniel Tobin (2007). “Light in Hand: Selected Early Poems”, p.28, Quale Press

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“Better--while life is quick And every pain immense and joy supreme, And all I have and am Flames upward to the dream ... Than like a taper forgotten in the dawn, Burning out the quick.”
-- Lola Ridge

Source : Lola Ridge (1918). “The Ghetto, and Other Poems”

#Dream Quotes #Pain Quotes #Flames Quotes

“I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.”

“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”

Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36

“You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.”

“I am tortured too. I am tortured by belly fat and magazine covers about how to please everyone but myself. I am tortured by sheep who click on anything that will guarantee a ten-pound loss in one week. Sheep who will get on their knees if it means someone will like them more. I am tortured by my inability to want to hang out with desperate sheep. I am tortured by ***** yearbooks full of bullshit. I met you when. I'll miss the times. I'll keep in touch. Best friends forever. Is this okay? Are you all right? Are you tortured too?”

“The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

“I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.”

“He wasn't what sent me running. He was what had made me want to stay.”

“He'd made sure i had something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.”

“Others have been made fools of by the girls; but, this can never be with truth said of me. I most emphatically, in this instance,made a fool of myself.”

“If only men came made to order. It's so hard to find a decent fellow.”

Source : Adriana Trigiani (2003). “Lucia, Lucia: A Novel”, p.64, Random House