Susan Stewart Quotations

The power of elegy, even in the face of an unbounded grief, to provide a containing form is vividly embodied by Anne Carson's 'Nox,' a nocturne with carefully controlled visual and tactile properties.

We're just going to focus on the rest of our season, and control what we can control. We can still control our own destiny.

More often writing soliloquies of suffering and consolation than collective songs like the dirge, elegists have discovered that lyric sequences can provide a powerful means of addressing the tensions between grief's inchoate emotion and social rituals of mourning.

Poets writing in English have long learned to mourn from classical precedents. They have drawn on a tradition of pastoral elegies, which incorporate the dead into the cycles of nature, that runs from Theocritus' Idylls to John Milton's 'Lycidas' and Percy Shelley's 'Adonais.'

I think we have a core group of returning seniors who have grown with the program and are determined to make this season the best since it's their last.

I think we dominated the whole game except for four minutes, when we had a lull,

We played a good second half, but we let them score in the final 30 seconds, so we'll have to work on that.

We're told by educators that if we don't reach out at the younger grades, we've lost them. So the urgency is to reach them when they're young.

Umberto Poli was born in Trieste in 1883, when the city was at its zenith as the major port of the Habsburgs. The irredentist sympathies of Umberto's Italian-speaking parents can be detected in their giving him the first name of the Italian emperor.

As traditions of mourning wane, women's role as designated mourners has also vanished. In consequence, the woman elegist must summon her own resources as an artist.

They all have that drive and intensity. I think definitely our seniors feel that we could have gone farther last year. I'm not sure that the underclassmen have a sense of that yet, but I think they're going to work hard to make sure their season is as long as it can be this year.

The most important American love poet in living memory, and certainly one of the most important American poets tout court, Robert Creeley was born in 1926 and raised in eastern Massachusetts.

Now is the time to start learning and read the financial press and find out. Women control household spending. So they really do have their hands on the pulse of what's going on in America. A lot of women over 40 do have the money saved ? but now it's that fear, 'How do I invest it wisely?' That's the more difficult equation.

The length and shape of the poemetto, like the greater Romantic lyric of English poetry, lends itself to retrospection and commentary.

The voice of a person thinking, discovering, revising, is ever-present without any loss in grace or ease.

To toy with something is to manipulate it, to try it out within sets of contexts none of which is determinate.

The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the plane of its significance, it threatens infinity.