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William Alexander Percy was an American poet known for his profound personal poetry and prose. His works often explore Southern culture, racial relations, and personal spiritual exploration. Percy was born on May 14, 1885, and died on January 21, 1942.

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“And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France?”

Romance Fall Fields Proud France Obscure Be Proud Poppies

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“I suspect anyway that the important things we learn we never remember because they become a part of us, we absorb them...we don't absorb multiplication tables.”

Important Remember Tables Important Things Suspects Multiplication

Book:Lanterns on the Levee; Recollections of a Planter's Son

Source: Lanterns on the Levee; Recollections of a Planter's Son

“As with all great teachers, his curriculum was an insignificant part of what he communicated. From him you didn't learn a subject, but a life...Tolerance and justice, fearlessness and pride, reverence and pity, are learned in a course on long division if the teacher has those qualities.”

Ifs Long Courses Justice Quality Teach Teacher Subjects Pride Tolerance Pity Division Reverence Insignificant Fearlessness Curriculum Great Teacher

Author:William Alexander Percy

“I have a need of silence and of stars. Too much is said too loudly. I am dazed. The silken sound of whirled infinity Is lost in voices shouting to be heard.”

Needs Said Lost Stars Sound Voice Silence Too Much Heard Infinity Shouting Dazed

Book:The collected poems of William Alexander Percy

Source: The collected poems of William Alexander Percy

“It is a very nice world-that is, if you remember that while morals are all-important between the Lord and His creatures, what counts between one creature and another is good manners.”

Ifs World Important Remember Moral Lord Nice Creatures Manners Good Man Very Nice Good Manners

Book:Lanterns on the Levee; Recollections of a Planter's Son

Source: Lanterns on the Levee; Recollections of a Planter's Son

“With us, when you speak of ‘the river,’ though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the shifting, unappeasable god of the country, feared and loved the Mississippi.”

Mean Country Speak Rivers Shifting Mississippi

Book:Lanterns on the Levee; Recollections of a Planter's Son

Source: Lanterns on the Levee; Recollections of a Planter's Son

About the Author

Born: May 14, 1885
Died: January 21, 1942
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 6

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