Lola Ridge quotes
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“Life You have been good to me.... You have not made yourself too dear to juggle with.”
-- Lola RidgeSource : 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 RidgeSource : 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 RidgeSource : 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 RidgeSource : 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 RidgeSource : 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 RidgeSource : 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 RidgeSource : Lola Ridge (1918). “The Ghetto, and Other Poems”
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“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
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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“I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.”
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“He wasn't what sent me running. He was what had made me want to stay.”
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“He'd made sure i had something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.”
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“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
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