14 quotes found
“For the way of the comets is the poet's way.”
“I am a moonbeam free to go whenever I choose.”
“Somewhere in the night ahuman being is drowning.”
“The eclipses ofpoets are not foretold in the calender.”
“(Everyday life is like a sack: with holes. And you carry it anyway.)”
“Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.”
“One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.”
“Don't you know no one can escapethe power of creatures reaching outwith breath alone?”
“I opened my veins. Unstoppablylife spurts out with no remedy.Now I set out bowls and plates.Every bowl will be shallow.Every plate will be small.And overflowing their rims,into the black earth, to ...”
“There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like...”
“I want to sleep with you, fall asleep and sleep. That magnificent folk word, how deep, how true, how unequivocal, how exactly what it says. Just sleep. And nothing more. No, another thing: and kno...”
