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Alfred Kreymborg Quotes

1883–1966

Alfred Francis Kreymborg (December 10, 1883 – August 14, 1966) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, literary editor and anthologist.

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Defiant love sonnets
demanding nude joys
lure girls to be naughty
and live like the boys.

The Little World: 1914 and After (1932)

The sky
is that beautiful old parchment
in which the sun and the moon
keep their diary.

Mushrooms: A Book of Free Forms (1916)

Manhattan’s a hell where culture rarely grew—
But it lets two lives do all they care to do.

Satan
the envious
said with a sigh:
Christians
know more
about their hell
than I.

The Little World: 1914 and After (1932)

I am four monkeys.
One hangs from a limb,
tail-wise,
chattering at the earth;
another is cramming his belly with cocoanut;
the third is up in the top branches,
quizzing the sky;
and the fourth—
he’s chasing another monkey.
How many monkeys are you?

Mushrooms: A Book of Free Forms (1916)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alfred Kreymborg (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.