W. D. Snodgrass Quotes & Sayings

I have not learned how often I Can win, can love, but choose to die. — W. D. Snodgrass

The sleek, expensive girls I teach,
Younger and pinker every year,
Bloom gradually out of reach. — W. D. Snodgrass

I've been accused of humanizing the Nazis, to which I can only say, you can't blame me for that. God did that. Go talk to him. It's a strange thing for an atheist to say. — W. D. Snodgrass

You must call up every strength you own
And you can rip off the whole facial mask. — W. D. Snodgrass

And you, whiner, who wastes your time
Dawdling over the remorseless earth,
What evil, what unspeakable crime
Have you made your life worth? — W. D. Snodgrass

I taught myself to name my name,
To bark back, loosen love and crying;
To ease my woman so she came,
To ease an old man who was dying. — W. D. Snodgrass

In darkness and in hedges
I sang my sour tone
and all my love was howling
conspicuously alone. — W. D. Snodgrass