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William Jay Smith
11 quotes
“A silver-scaled dragon with jaws flaming red Sits at my elbow and toasts my bread. I hand him fat slices, and then, one by one, He hands them back when he sees they are done.”
William Jay Smith (1918–2015) first seen 1955 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Toaster". Laughing Time (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1955), p. 20
“The long-haired Yak has long black hair, He lets it grow — he doesn't care. He lets it grow and grow and grow, He lets it trail along the stair. Does he ever go to the barbershop? NO! How wild and woolly and devil-may-care A long-haired Yak with long black hair Would look when perched in a barber chair!”
William Jay Smith (1918–2015) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Yak". Boy Blue's Book of Beasts (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1957), p. 7
“He hangs in the hall by his black cravat, The ladies faint, and the children holler: Only my Daddy could look like that, And I love my Daddy like he loves his Dollar.”
William Jay Smith (1918–2015) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: American Primitive", st. 3. Poems, 1947–1957 (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1957), p. 6
“Now touch the air softly, Step gently. One, two... I’ll love you till roses Are robin’s-egg blue; I’ll love you till gravel Is eaten for bread, And lemons are orange, And lavender’s red.”
William Jay Smith (1918–2015) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Pavane for the Nursery", st. 1. Poems, 1947–1957 (1957), p. 18
“And I’ll love you as long As the furrow the plow, As However is Ever, And Ever is Now.”
William Jay Smith (1918–2015) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Pavane for the Nursery", st. 4. Poems, 1947–1957 (1957), p. 18
“I know a place all fennel-green and fine Far from the white ice cap, the glacial flaw, Where shy mud hen and dainty porcupine Dance in delight by a quivering pawpaw;”
William Jay Smith (1918–2015) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Green Place", st. 1. Poems, 1947–1957 (1957), p. 19
“The lariat snaps; the cowboy rolls His pack, and mounts and rides away. Back to the land the cowboy goes.”
William Jay Smith (1918–2015) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Closing of the Rodeo", st. 1. Poems, 1947–1957 (1957), p. 68
“Thinking of you this evening, I think of mystery; I think of umbrellas of crystal Shading a cinnamon sea;”
William Jay Smith (1918–2015) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Poem", l. 1. George Garrett (ed.) The Girl in the Black Raincoat (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1966), p. 77
“And life is a rain-swept mirror Through which perpetually A girl with bright hair flowing, Dappled dark coat blowing, Into the unknown, knowing, Walks with me.”
William Jay Smith (1918–2015) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Poem", l. 9. The Girl in the Black Raincoat (1966), p. 77
“Not ringed but rare, not gilled but polyp-like, having sprung up overnight— These mushrooms of the gods, resembling human organs uprooted, rooted only on the air,”
William Jay Smith (1918–2015) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Morels", sts. 9–10. The Tin Can, and Other Poems (Delacorte Press, 1966), p. 3
“Tasting of the sweet damp woods and of the rain one inch above the meadow: It was like feasting upon air.”
William Jay Smith (1918–2015) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Morels", sts. 19–20. The Tin Can, &c. (1966), p. 4