One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind: and that as this state of mind changes, poetry is likely to dry up.
Just spunk won't be enough; you've got to have gumption. - James Agee
Just spunk won't be enough; you've got to have gumption.
- James Agee
The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself. - James Agee
The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself.
A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children. - James Agee
A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. - James Agee
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition. - James Agee
You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.
And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and mortal, bearing invisibly near, by the unwarned c… - James Agee
And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and mortal, bearing invisibly near, by the unwarned c…
You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning o… - James Agee
You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning o…
The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to perceive the aesthetic reality within the ac… - James Agee
The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to perceive the aesthetic reality within the ac…
Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don't. - James Agee
Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don't.
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