18 Quotes by Susan Stewart

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.