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theEIpod: Walker Percy called his cousin and adoptive father Will Percy the most extraordinary man he'd ever known. Check out this conversation about Will's book LANTERNS ON THE LEVEE.
acrimonyand: Behind us a culture lies dying, before us the forces of the unknown industrial world gather for catastrophe.
— William Alexander Percy
gboddicker: The treasures in the donations bin at the William Alexander Percy Library never cease to inspire
FlaggTaylor4: Check out our most recent release, a discussion of a terrific memoir by William Alexander Percy.
FlaggTaylor4: William Alexander Percy, quoting his father: "'I guess a man's job is to make the world a better place to live in, so far as he is able-always remembering the results will be infinitesimal-and to attend to his own soul.' I've found those words direction enough for my life."
theEIpod: New episode on the intriguing figure below!
FlaggTaylor4: William Alexander Percy: I find people are constantly feeling impelled to protect me. Invariably they are right and I accept their proffered ministrations gratefully. I cannot drive a car or fix a puncture or sharpen a pencil or swim or skate or give a punch in the jaw...1/7
PASeay13: “I have a need of silence and of stars;
Too much is said too loudly;”
-William Alexander Percy, “Home”
theEIpod: Coming tomorrow: William Alexander Percy's LANTERNS ON THE LEVEE.
GaddieWindage: “They were the sort of people that lynch Negroes, that mistake hoodlumism for wit, & cunning for intelligence, that attend revivals and fornicate in the bushes afterwards.” William Alexander Percy, Lanterns on the Levee (1941), explaining Mississippi's “undiluted Anglo-Saxons.”
RayburnNIET: From him you didn't learn a subject, but life...tolerance, justice, fearlessness and pride, reverence and pity, are learned in a course of long division if the teacher has those qualities. -William Alexander Percy
gboddicker: If you’re going to find a first edition Willy, you’ll probably find it at the William Alexander Percy library in Greenville Mississippi for a quarter. Did I mention it was signed. To a frat boy.
stevenfhayward: "There should be a monument to Southern womanhood, creator of the only American cuisine that makes the world a better place to live in."
—William Alexander Percy
acrimonyand: Freedom is a precious possession, but worthless commercially.
— William Alexander Percy
acrimonyand: William Alexander Percy on the First World War.
acrimonyand: They ask little, for they know it is little they will receive for all their asking, but what little is so dear, as it always is to the autumn-hearted who know life is pitiful and infinitely sweet.
— William Alexander Percy
DavidCranmerUn1: Standard Oil senior executive William Rockefeller
•James Alexander Stillman (1873–1944), who married Anne Urquhart Potter. He also served as president of National City Bank of New York
•Isabel Goodrich Stillman (1876–1935), who married Percy Avery Rockefeller (1878–1934)
GrantWannabe: Since I’m in Greenville, allow me to introduce you to this beautiful twink — William Alexander Percy. Poet, Memoirist, Son of a Senator, Harvard Law Grad.
mitchdawg28: William Alexander Percy & Walker Percy beaming at this tweet
woundtothewest: enjoying some of that WAP (William Alexander Percy)
PASeay13: “I have a need of silence and of stars;
Too much is said too loudly;”
-William Alexander Percy, “Home”
f0x__tr0t: When all is lost, William Alexander Percy wrote of Stoicism, “it stands fast.”
PASeay13: William Alexander Percy’s copy of THE SOUND AND THE FURY
TimesDelta: Mayor Errick D. Simmons and GSA representatives invite all small businesses to a Small Business Outreach Meeting at 10 a.m. Wednesday, May 25, at William Alexander Percy Library in Greenville to discuss the process for s...
acrimonyand: “Now...we have the insolence of organized labor and the insolence of capital, examples both of the insolence of the parvenu.”
— William Alexander Percy
acrimonyand: Freedom is a precious possession, but worthless commercially.
— William Alexander Percy
acrimonyand: They ask little, for they know it is little they will receive for all their asking, but what little is so dear, as it always is to the autumn-hearted who know life is pitiful and infinitely sweet.
— William Alexander Percy
acrimonyand: There’s an enduring quality to truth exceedingly irritating to fidgety minds.
— William Alexander Percy
Chase_Steely: “In the South our anxiety is not to find new ideas, but to bring to realization old ones which have been tested and proved by years of anguish—a far more difficult undertaking.” - William Alexander Percy
acrimonyand: Behind us a culture lies dying, before us the forces of the unknown industrial world gather for catastrophe.
— William Alexander Percy
acrimonyand: Once the ice-cream gave out just before my turn came. This was my first experience of the injustice of things. One is not born a Stoic.
— William Alexander Percy
WillGalloway_: Back again with a William Alexander Percy quote & thinking about the people I’ve been lucky enough to know who fit this description
DavidCranmerUn1: William Rockefeller
•James Alexander Stillman (1873–1944), who married Anne Urquhart Potter. He also served as president of National City Bank of New York
•Isabel Goodrich Stillman (1876–1935), who married Percy Avery Rockefeller (1878–1934) in 1901. Percy was another
michael73702872: LANTERNS ON THE LEVY/one of the finest books on the fellas ever written/william alexander percy
chamblee54: Sir James Merivale, Bogul R. Purvy
Zelmo Braymance, Percy P. Orminder
Roman Pute, Oran Pludge, Worgum Slupsky
Belijah H. Bimbee, Bartle Quinker
Jomater Albemy, Oglum P. Boomp
Anita Bobe, Barlow S. Vode, Alexander Poke
Huff Huckle, Porfer Poog, John William Yope
Soulwhisper15: I have a need of silence and of stars. Too much is said too loudly. ~William Alexander Percy
SophiaCycles: I have a need of silence and of stars. Too much is said too loudly. ~William Alexander Percy
joyfrequencies: “I have a need of silence and of stars. Too much is said too loudly…”
— William Alexander Percy
RyanHoliday: “My whole theory about life is that glory and accomplishment are of far less importance than the creation of character and the individual good life.” William Alexander Percy
RealSardonicus: "I have a need of silence and of stars.
Too much is said too loudly"
William Alexander Percy
BARS_DigiEvents: This roundtable on Dialogues and Receptions traces the conversations and legacies surrounding Romantic writers such as William Blake, Percy Shelley, William Hazlitt, Alexander Pope, Mary Shelley, and Lord Byron.
DavidCranmerUn1: William Rockefeller
•James Alexander Stillman (1873–1944), who married Anne Urquhart Potter.[9] He also served as president of National City Bank of New York
•Isabel Goodrich Stillman (1876–1935), who married Percy Avery Rockefeller (1878—1934) in 1901. Percy was another
Greenville_CAN: Greenville College Access Network will be at the William Alexander Percy Memorial library Saturday, May 22nd from 9am-12pm. If you haven’t completed your fafsa, we will be there to assist you!!
FarEastDeepSo: "The lowest of the low, [William Alexander Percy] wrote, were the Chinese shopkeepers who dotted the small towns of the Delta."
The appalling history of racism towards Asian Americans.
Greg1Garrett: ...To see the world through new eyes. To acknowledge the truth. To, as William Alexander Percy used to do with his nephew Walker Percy(both of Blessed Memory), ask “Do you see that?” And to hear the response: “Yes. Yes, I do.” ...
Greenville_CAN: Greenville College Access Network will be at the William Alexander Percy Memorial Library on Saturday, April 24th from 9am-12pm offering financial aid assistance services! Walk-ins are welcomed!!
reustis: "They were the sort of people that lynch Negroes, that mistake hoodlumism for wit, and cunning for intelligence, that attend revivals and fight and fornicate in the bushes afterward. They were undiluted Anglo-Saxons."
-William Alexander Percy
CottonTurtle9: Sunday in Greenville, Mississippi.
St. Joseph's (on the left) was immortalised in William Alexander Percy's "Lanterns on the Levee."
antiquebooksden: THE COLLECTED POEMS OF WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY FOREWORD BY ROARK BRADFORD
acrimonyand: Training in a profession, though ornamental, was unnecessary for a gentleman, but of course you couldn’t be one at all unless you owned land.
— William Alexander Percy
acrimonyand: Freedom...is a precious possession, but worthless commercially.
— William Alexander Percy
AmicableFogey: “The peace of God, it is no peace,
But strife closed in the sod.”
— William Alexander Percy
craigtimes: “I have a need of silence and of stars.
Too much is said too loudly. I am dazed.
The silken sound of whirled infinity
Is lost in voices shouting to be heard…”
― William Alexander Percy
_Tom_Pappas: “My whole theory about life is that glory and accomplishment are of far less importance than the creation of character and the individual good life.” - William Alexander Percy
today_in_music: Playlist a Day for 2020-08-11
your_chai: I have a need of silence and of stars;
Too much is said too loudly.
~ William Alexander Percy, from Home
AdnanHa72828193: I have a need of silence and of stars;
Too much is said too loudly.
~ William Alexander Percy, from Home
FlocoTorres: "There was never a race problem, until two races living in close contact, approach numerical equality." - William Alexander Percy
From 'Freedom Summer' by Bruce Watson
AmicableFogey: “I sent them to the churches.”
William Alexander Percy on his decision to raise his adopted nephews (one named Walker) in the Episcopal Church to help guide them “to this remaining fastness.”
Today they still sing William’s hymns but can’t offer the help he was looking for.
acrimonyand: They ask little, for they know it is little they will receive for all their asking, but what little is so dear, as it always is to the autumn-hearted who know life is pitiful and infinitely sweet.
— William Alexander Percy
acrimonyand: I’ve never more fully understood the mind of a writer than I do William Alexander Percy. It’s like reading something I wrote in a former life.
Green_Mt_Girl: "The peace of God, it is no peace."
- William Alexander Percy
BamaExpat: It comes out very starkly in William Alexander Percy’s great memoir, Lanterns on the Levee. The main was no friend to civil rights but he hated the KKK for being a bunch of no-count peckerwoods who threatened the blacks he had a paternalistic attitude towards.
sohoastro: “I have a need of silence and of stars.
Too much is said too loudly…”
— William Alexander Percy
bunhodges: “I haunted art galleries and churches like a New England spinster and must have passed months in the Louvre, the longest, tallest, widest, worst-hung, most exhausting, irritating, and magnificent gallery in the world.” — William Alexander Percy, “Lanterns on the Levee”
bunhodges: “I have noticed that if you afford people a chance to give, they are little less than angels; but if you afford them a chance to receive, they almost convince you somebody is right about the need of a hell.” — William Alexander Percy, “Lanterns on the Levee”
DWarwere: Looking for an autobiography by William Alexander Percy
"Lantern on the Levee"
Kindly,if you get it DM me.
wlcunning: "Behind us a culture lies dying, before us the forces of the unknown industrial world gather for catastrophe."
Percy, William Alexander. Lanterns on the Levee - Recollections of a Planter's Son (p. 34).
malvinacornell: The Patriot by sculptor Malvina Hoffman (1885-1966) commissioned by William Alexander Percy, Greenville MS 1930.Percy’s home was the salon for Faulkner, Shelby Foote and many great writers.
AmicableFogey: “There should be a monument to Southern womanhood, creator of the only American cuisine that makes the world a better place to live in.”
— William Alexander Percy
tedien69: I have a need of silence and of stars;
Too much is said too loudly; I am dazed.
The silken sound of whirled infinity
Is lost in voices shouting to be heard.
Home by William Alexander Percy
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Scotloyd: I grew up with a levee. 'I often took to the levee in sheer lonesomeness and confusion of soul' Me too, William Alexander Percy. Me too.
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Jahaza: Marked as to-read: Lanterns on the Levee by William Alexander Percy
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Too much is said too loudly..."
-William Alexander Percy
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ElliottStephenB: "They do not deserve these chromos in stone." William Alexander Percy with a newly relevant take on Confederate mon...
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Littlepocket11: Marked as to-read: Lanterns on the Levee by William Alexander Percy
ArtisEHinson: Richard Wagner, Gen. William Booth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Dr. J. H. Kellogg, Alexander Pope,
