72 quotes found
“Success is survival.”
“Ah, grief makes us precise!”
“There is a crack in everything”
“Deprivation is the mother of poetry.”
“Music is the emotional life of most people.”
“Your faith was strong, but you needed proof...”
“And I'll dance with you in Vienna,I'll be wearing a river's disguise.The hyacinth wild on my shouldermy mouth on the dew of your thighs.And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,with the photographs the...”
“... i didn't fall in love of courseit's never up to youbut she was walking back and forthand i was passing through”
“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
“I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see Im just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet who loved you with his frozen love, his second hand physique, with all he is and ...”
“There is a crack in everything.That's how the light gets in.”
“It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was areal mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which t...”
“Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.”
“There is a crack, a crack, in everything. That's how the light gets in.”
“Perhaps no line of Cohens better captures the essence of his vision. He is telling his listeners what prophetically inclined rabbis have been telling theirs for thousands of years, namely that the ...”
“first of all nothing will happen and a little laternothing will happen again”
“so much of the world is plunged in darkness and chaos...So ring the bells that still can ringForget your perfect offeringThere is a crack in everythingThats how the light gets in.”
“Who could have foretoldthe heart grows oldfrom touching others”
“I heard of a manwho says words so beautifullythat if he only speaks their namewomen give themselves to him.If I am dumb beside your bodywhile silence blossoms like tumors on our lipsit is because I...”
“At first first nothing will happen to usand later on it will happen to us again.”
“I walk through the old yellow sunlightto get to my kitchen tablethe poem about melying there with the booksin which I am listedamong the dead and future Dylans”
“Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small Perfect Thing Which Will Live In Your Morning Like Curious Static Through A President...”
“Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.”
“Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore”
