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“Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.”
“A poet could kill the dead.”
“My best testimonies are from the times I thought I couldn't survive.”
“But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them puts people out of touch with their creative powers.”
“When there is nothing to catchAnd nothing is catching you,You are free;From all your separations!”
“The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way”
“Therefore, you should fall in love as often as you can. Fall in love with a thing, with a soul, with every person in your life. Fall in love with your very existence. Only then will you know you ha...”
“An anaesthetic is a poet-killer.”
“Paris and HelenHe called her: golden dawnShe called him: the wind whistlesHe called her: heart of the skyShe called him: message bringerHe called her: mother of pearl barley woman, rice provider, m...”
“In this quiet place on a quiet streetwhere no one ever finds usgently, lovingly, freedom gives back our pain.--from poem In a Quiet Place on a Quiet Street”
“One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.”
“Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yourself responsible for whatever the status quo does to you.”
“You cannot devote your life to an abstraction. Indeed, life shatters all abstractions in one way or another, including words such as "faith" or "belief". If God is not in the very fabric of existen...”
“Poets, like fighters, both reap the benefits of roadwork.”
“We must experience certain things in life, even in our childhood, so we can later look back and value the journey.”
“Let them shoot us in the head,My blood will grow rootsand will blossom.”
“New York! I say New York, let black blood flow into your blood.Let it wash the rust from your steel joints, like an oil of life Let it give your bridges the curve of hips and supple vines. Now the ...”
“... unfools of unbeing ... means quite clearly people who are too stereotyped to be eccentric people who are too dead spiritually to exist at all and who call alive individual fools”
“The secret to life is to live as though you know the secret." Barbara Botch”
“One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.”
