Quotes from authors that died on Feb 5th
In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
Marianne Moore
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Thomas Carlyle
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Thomas Carlyle
Walt understood all of those things, and even common things about people. For instance: Usually you get your idea of what kind of day it is by looking at the horizon, because the horizon is your eye level. So what Walt did is to eliminate the horizon.
John Hench
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
Thomas Carlyle
Michael C. Hall 
Richard Mentor Johnson 
Coleman Hawkins 
Alexis Arguello 
Jacques Prevert 
Kristin Chenoweth 
Vincent Gallo 
Richard Widmark