Get Your Premium Membership

James Agee

James Agee Photo
Biography | All Poems | Best Poems | Short Poems | Quotes

James Rufus Agee (/'edi/ ay-jee; November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American author, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, he was one of the most influential film critics in the U.S. His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957), won the author a posthumous 1958 Pulitzer Prize.. American novelist screenwriter journalist poet film critic


Poems are below...



Top 5 Poems

More Information

Sorry, no poems have been posted.

All Poems

Sorry, no poems have been posted.

More Information

Articles

Articles about James Agee or articles that mention James Agee.

Sorry, no articles found.

More Information

Quotes

Here are a few random quotes by James Agee.

See also: All James Agee Quotes

Quote Left As a whole part of psychological education it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that adjustment to a sick and insane environment is of itself not health but sickness and insanity. Quote Right
Go to Quote / Comment

Quote Left It seems to me curious, not to say obscene and thoroughly terrifying, that it could occur to an association of human beings drawn together through need and chance and for profit into a company, an organ of journalism, to pry intimately into the lives of an undefended and appallingly damaged group of human beings, an ignorant and helpless rural family, for the purpose of parading the nakedness, disadvantage and humiliation of these lives before another group of human beings, in the name of science, of Quote Right
Go to Quote / Comment

Quote Left In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God. Quote Right
Go to Quote / Comment

Quote Left He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the track's end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive... Quote Right
Go to Quote / Comment

Quote Left The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. Quote Right
Go to Quote / Comment


Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry