817 quotes found
“Allow this poem to carry you beyond yourself, transcending your mortal flesh as you wed yourself with the potentially infinite.”
“Thinking is easy, acting difficult, and to put one's thoughts into actions the most difficult thing in the world.”
“He didn't know that sometimes, the most awesome and complicated thing you can do is just stick around.”
“Oh you dear companionsElectric bells of the stations song of the reapersButcher's sleigh regiment of unnumbered streetsCavalry of bridges nights livid with alcoholThe cities I've seen lived like ma...”
“Is it a world in the makingthat turns as it whistles to the depths of my beingIt is burningSuppose it were to appearA bleeding rosary at the windowa sun setting on the marshlands("Silver Clasp")”
“This is how you love: you do it in all the wrong ways, because that is the only way we know how.”
“Rum is tonic that clarifies the vision,and sets things in true perspective.”
“She tasted of coffee and day old poetry.”
“Beth from accountingis just sitting in her careating spaghetti.”
“Little old laidesspeed away in their wheel chairs,frightened meals on wheels.”
“I wanted to say "don't leave me," but I'm so tired of begging people to stay.”
“...the hardest word to swallow is almost.”
“Some people are like an open grave:You give it the thing you love mostAnd then get nothing in return.”
“Kiss the lips upon me once, and I shall never tell.”
“You will send me to the asylum for the truth,I know, I know!But before,Look within your skin,Hey, can you see me there?”
“You're given the fruit of one palm tree:Bear it a basin of clear water.Don't trouble with the plight of other palms.”
“I want to love like my grandmother, who loved a woman like Joseph loved Mary. Someone so imperfect, so human, brave enough to love someone who already knows God.”
“For success is for the ignorant That is what makes it original”
“A bouquet yellow like remorse Hurts my view The cage The wheel The vile ennui of all mankind And no one no one to break my chains!("Outcries")”
“THE CURSEMay they neverReturn home at night...May you have no part of eventide,May you have no room of your own,Nor road, nor return.May your days be all exactly the same,Five Fridays in a row,Alwa...”
