William Alexander Percy Professions : Poet Born : May 14, 1885 Died : January 21, 1942 Browse All Authors Top 6 quotes by William Alexander Percy With us, when you speak of ‘the river,’ though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the shifting, unappeasable god of the country, feared and loved the Mississippi. William Alexander Percy rivers mean country It is a very nice world-that is, if you remember that while morals are all-important between the Lord and His creatures, what counts between one creature and another is good manners. William Alexander Percy good-man nice important As with all great teachers, his curriculum was an insignificant part of what he communicated. From him you didn't learn a subject, but a life...Tolerance and justice, fearlessness and pride, reverence and pity, are learned in a course on long division if the teacher has those qualities. William Alexander Percy pride justice teacher I have a need of silence and of stars. William Alexander Percy voice silence stars I suspect anyway that the important things we learn we never remember because they become a part of us, we absorb them...we don't absorb multiplication tables. William Alexander Percy important tables remember And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France? William Alexander Percy romance proud fall Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors
