Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Marie Ponsot

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Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Marie Ponsot was an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. Her awards and honors included the National Book Critics Circle Award, Delmore Schwartz Memorial Prize, the Robert Frost Poetry Award, the Shaughnessy Medal of the Modern Language Association, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation, and the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry.

American - Poet | Born: April 6, 1921

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I stand above the tree level I am a tree I catch wind storm breaths My branches claw I drink sky It stretches me I don't care I catch jokes and luck from tall thin blue air

Marie Ponsot

Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

Marie Ponsot

Strike deep, divide us from cheap-got doubt, Leap, leap between us and the easy out; Teach us to seize, to use, to sleep well, to let go; Let our loves, freed in us, gaudy and graceful, grow.

Marie Ponsot

Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Marie Ponsot

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