18 Quotes by Susan Stewart

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.

And it is in this gap between resemblance and identity that nostalgic desire arises. The nostalgic is enamored of distance, not of the referent itself. Nostalgia cannot be sustained without loss.