Creative Quotations from May Swenson (1919-1989)

Creative Quotations from . . .

May Swenson
(1919-1989) born on May 28

US poet. She wrote "New and Selected Things Taking Place," 1978.

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Human double-barreled eyes,
in their narrow blind,
hope to shoot and hit
-- if they can find it
-- the backward-speeding hole
of the Cyclops face of the future.

The summer that I was ten --
Can it be there was only one summer that I was ten? It must
have been a long one then --.

THE DNA MOLECULE
THE DNA MOLECULE
THE DNA MOLECULE
is The Nude Descending a Staircase
a circular one. See the undersurfaces
of the spiral
treads and
the spaces
in between.

I was the horse and the rider . . .

We play in the den of the Gods and snort at death.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	In "Metaphors Dictionary," by Elyse Sommer and Dorrie Weiss, 1995.
R:	"The Centaur," Sts. I & 2, "To Mix with Time," 1963.
A:	In "Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations," by Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988.
N:	"The Centaur," Sts. I & 2, "To Mix with Time," 1963.
K:	"To Confirm A Thing," St. 2, "New and Selected Things Taking Place," 1978.