Amy Clampitt Quotes & Sayings

Everybody has to write out of rage sometimes. — Amy Clampitt

The music is a vibration in the brain rather than the ear. — Amy Clampitt

Meridian


First daylight on the bittersweet-hung
sleeping porch at high summer; dew
all over the lawn, sowing diamond-
point-highlighted shadows;
the hired man's shadow revolving
along the walk, a flash of milkpails
passing; no threat in sight, no hint
anywhere in the universe, of that

apathy at the meridian, the noon
of absolute boredom; flies
crooning black lullabies in the kitchen,
milk-soured crocks, cream separator
still unwashed; what is there to life
but chores and more chores, dishwater,
fatigue, unwanted children; nothing
to stir the longueur of afternoon

except possibly thunderheads;
climbing, livid, turreted alabaster
lit up from within by splendor and terror
-- forded lightening's
split-second disaster. — Amy Clampitt

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something. — Amy Clampitt

When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago. — Amy Clampitt

Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing. — Amy Clampitt