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Quote by Jim Harrison

“I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.”

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Jim Harrison was an American author born on December 11, 1937, and passed away on March 26, 2016. Known for his poetry, novels, and essays, his works have been widely appreciated by readers. more

“How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays, emanating either from myself or from others, cross the limitless chain of created things unimpeded; it is a transparent network that covers the world, and its slender threads communicate themselves by degrees to the planets and stars. Captive now upon earth, I commune with the chorus of the stars who share in my joys and sorrows.”

“If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.”

Ifs Doe Conquest Posterity Compact

Author:Charlotte Turner Smith

“In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.”

Mind Littles Lines Following Tudors

Book:The Works of Charlotte Smith: Marchmont (1796)

Source: The Works of Charlotte Smith: Marchmont (1796)

“There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.”

Kind Tired

Author:James Dickey

“I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Mean Doe I Can Done Can Do Poet Honor Claims Harm Crafts Live By Reducing Dubious Ginsberg

Author:James Dickey

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