The treasures of Cathay were never found. In this America, this wilderness Where the axe echoes with a lonely sound, The generations labor to possess And grave by grave we civilize the ground. — 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
