In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup And talk of the old country--mud and boards, Poverty, The snow falling down and necks of lovers. — Louis Simpson Copy Share Image
Being shelled is the main work of an infantry soldier, which no one talks about. Everyone has his own way of going about it. In general, it means lying face down and contracting your body into as small a space… — Louis Simpson Copy Share Image
“These wars have been so great, they are forgotten Like the Egyptian dynasts. My confrere In whose thick boots I stood, were you amazed… — Louis Simpson Copy Share Image
It's complicated, being an American, Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time. — Louis Simpson Copy Share Image
I gave no prescriptions, And those who have taken my moods for prophecies Mistake the matter. — Louis Simpson Copy Share Image
For people may not know what they think about politics in the Balkans, or the vexed question of men and women, but everyone has… — Louis Simpson Copy Share Image
The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it. — Louis Simpson Copy Share Image
All that grave weight of America Cancelled! Like Greece and Rome. The future in ruins! — Louis Simpson Copy Share Image
Paranoia imposes its own vision on the external world; it differs from other kinds of visionary experience in that the paranoid wants others to… — Louis Simpson Copy Share Image
The treasures of Cathay were never found. In this America, this wilderness Where the axe echoes with a lonely sound, The generations labor to… — Louis Simpson Copy Share Image
In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup And talk of the old country--mud and boards, Poverty, The snow falling down and necks… — Louis Simpson Copy Share Image
“Do not write. I am sad, and want my light put out. Summers in your absence are as dark as a room. I have… — Louis Simpson Copy Share Image
Being shelled is the main work of an infantry soldier, which no one talks about. Everyone has his own way of going about it.… — Louis Simpson Copy Share Image
