Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by John Holmes

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American poet John Holmes.

Last updated on December 23, 2024.

John Holmes, born John Albert Holmes Jr., was a poet and critic. He was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, and both attended and taught at Tufts University where he was a professor of literature and modern poetry for 28 years. He wrote several volumes of poetry and the lyrics to several Unitarian Universalist hymns., including "The People's Peace". He taught John Ciardi and Anne Sexton.

American - Poet | January 6, 1904 - June 22, 1962

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It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

John Holmes

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

John Holmes

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.

John Holmes

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

John Holmes

To be beat is to be at the bottom of your personality, looking up.

John Holmes

I liked the rain. It made it harder, the harder the better. I didn't see accidents but there are a lot of broken cars out there.

John Holmes

And just then he realized in a flash that men have only this sad knowledge with which to heal themselves: when you lose life, you grow wise. But that is better than maiming life to hold it.

John Holmes

A dog is not almost-human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.

John Holmes

The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown.

John Holmes