Best American Poetry 1999 Quotes

#1. It is quiet, and when the belling tower strikes the late hour, it doesn't break the silence so much as it underpins it.

Patrick Rothfuss

#2. Governments will be provided with the choice of either accommodating themselves to co-ordinating proliferating human variety or seeking to reduce that variety by repressive measures.

Peter J. Carroll

#3. You saved me, you should remember me.

Louise Gluck

#4. Understanding others is knowledge, Understanding oneself is enlightenment; Conquering others is power, Conquering oneself is strength.

Laozi

#5. Listen, / my wary one, it's far too late / to unlove each other.

William Matthews

#6. Isn't it worth missing whatever joy / you might have dreamed, to wake in the night and find / you and your beloved are holding hands in your sleep?

Galway Kinnell

#7. There are multi-scatterings of various and associated issues and concerns, but it all boils down to accountable people versus those unwilling to be accountable.

Ted Nugent

#8. She fell in love with her doctor's stethoscope, the way it listened to her heart.

Russell Edson

#9. This dark December day inspires him to write / the plainest things in the snow, then walk away.

Chard DeNiord

#10. We know that England is crying for a leader, and that leader has emerged in the person of the greatest Englishman I have ever known, Sir Oswald Mosley ... When the history of Europe comes to be written I can assure you that his name will not be second to either Mussolini or Hitler.

William Joyce

#11. Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.

Pope John Paul II

#12. You give me a great desire to love.

Marguerite Duras