Joan Ganz Cooney | 08/16/2009 11:00 pm

Joan Ganz Cooney Rattled by Two Poets

In response to: What passage or passages from a book, poem, short story or other literary work moved you so much that you've never forgotten it?

There are many lines and passages from poems that rattle around in my brain. One of my favorites is from a poem written by Robert Lowell to Elizabeth Hardwick:

"You were in your 20s and I, once, hand on glass and heart in mouth, outdrank the Rahvs in the heat of Greenwich Village, too boiled and shy and poker faced to make a pass." And another, Dylan Thomas’s: "Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light."

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The poem passages are deep in thought, I like poems to read, but I like to write them better. I like Robert Frost, Emily dickinson, Edgar Allen Poe, and many others.

By lori hackman on 08/17/2009 6:01 pm