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“O I never thought that joys would run away from boys,Or that boys would change their minds and forsake such summer joys;But alack I never dreamed that the world had other toys”
“It is our fate to give ourselves most lavishlyto those who'd rather not be burdened with the gift”
“What is this life so full of care,We don't have time to stand and stare.”
“Nature is bent on new beginningand death has not a chance of winning...”
“if what is true brings us sorrow, / if what sorrow brings is truth”
“I will never take what is never given, but I will receive to what is given.”
“The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.”
“When we lose these woods, we lose our soul. Not simply as individuals, but as a people.”
“For the past thirty years or so, much American poetry has been marked by an earnestness that rejects the comic. This has nothing to do with seriousness. The comic can be very serious. The trouble w...”
“Though the body is itsgenesis, a poem is the vision of a processCarved in space, vision your poor eye's singlearmor against winter spring summer fall”
“Poetry is the whispering of a truth by the shouting of the best possible lies”
“But he never forgot how once by not knowing time,He escaped into the clockless land of ever,Where time hides tick-less waiting to be born.”
“I've never been able to write poetry without having vast tracts of dead time. Poetry requires a certain kind of disciplined indolence that the world, including many prose writers, doesn't recognize...”
“Who will read these poems when the people are gone?”
“Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist.Pink dragonflies fall from the airand become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks.The rainbows that dangle upon this mist: shatter. Like the smi...”
“In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and whe...”
“Hesitancy is the surest destroyer of talent. One cannot be timorous and reticent, one must be original and loud. New metaphors, new rhythms, new expressions of emotion can only spring from unhinder...”
“Suddenly, I was stopped by a quiet song . .Somebody stood, swaying slowly on the road,In the darkest shadow by a puddle,And low above it a small tree grew . .It mightve been a wild cherry tree . .H...”
“Right words are born in courage, which results from our struggle to make sense of our various predicaments. Cheer is what words are "trying to tell us/... It's native to the words/and what they wan...”
“Plt au ciel que le lecteur, enhardi et devenu momentanment froce comme ce quil lit, trouve, sans se dsorienter, son chemin abrupt et sauvage, travers les marcages dsols de ces pages sombres et ple...”
