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“If you think of the moon as already used, it’s not as difficult to take in, because then it’s just like you,Traveled the world like you,Seen the globe like you,But, it’s still bright.”
“He tried to get drunk, “to forget about life for awhile,” as that oldBilly Joel song once said, but the scotch couldn't anesthetize his painand provide a retreat from the reality of his latest fail...”
“…evangelicals were instrumental in advancing the ideal of companionate marriage, one built on shared faith and mutual affection, a revolutionary notion in an era in which forced marriages were a no...”
“And in the depths of music, I didn’t find the answer,And again there was silence, and again the ghost of summer.”
“You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.”
“To truly strip a man of everything, one must take away his money, community, and the core of his beliefs until he is bathed in the agony of isolation.”
“Riches I hold in light esteem,And love I laugh to scorn,And lust of fame was but a dreamThat vanished with the morn.And if I pray, the only prayerThat moves my lips for meIs, 'Leave the heart that ...”
“Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give dire...”
“For now, this afternoon, you saw and touchedmy heart, dissolved and liquid in your hands.”
“…mischief, …arises not from our living in the world, but from the world living in us; occupying our hearts, and monopolizing our affections.”
“Having been fucked up by my family and community, I’ll never know where my gayness came from, and where it ends and “neurosis” begins. But as a gay person I know I’m a vital element in our civiliza...”
“Reflections they give meThat my mirror does notThey know the new meNot the old meThat I am not”
“We can burst the bonds which chain us,Which cold human hands have wrought,And where none shall dare restrain usWe can meet again, in thought.”
“Poetry arises from the desire to get beyond the finite and the historical—the human world of violence and difference—and to reach the transcendent or divine. You're moved to write a poem, you feel ...”
“The whole world, as we’re coming to understand, is quivering in its place.”
“You’ve always been a stormYour lightning mouthElectrifies my heart”
“She senses your vulnerability, and reassures that every dream you’ve ever whispered in the night, or secret desires you dared not speak, are all within the palm of her hand”
“You're One Moment From 'The Moment'. Live it. -”
“The strangest of our powersIs the courage to liveKnowing that we will die,Knowing nothing more”
“I didn’t want anybody seeing my fire until I burned them with it.”
