817 quotes found
“I am—yet what I am none cares or knows; My friends forsake me like a memory lost: I am the self-consumer of my woes— They rise and vanish in oblivious host, Like shadows in love’s frenzied stifled ...”
“Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is th...”
“Armed I am with love. Disarmed I am.”
“Prose: words in their best order”
“Don’t write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words shouldn’t be changed.Write with what gives you the most sensual satisfaction.Write in a hard-covered notebook with green lined pag...”
“The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way”
“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 ...”
“To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence”
“I love being able to see an un-written future.”
“Don’t forget to collect the memories on your journey. Remember, if you only focus on your destination, you will miss out on the benefits of the journey.”
“A versifier passes through the sound”
“Love doesn’t make you a poet”
“I will never take what is never given, but I will receive to what is given.”
“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”
“I’ve learned to fall like the BJJ player, to protect the body through controlling the distribution of force by slapping the mat with hands open. With hands open. Hands open. Open. O Pen.”
“Fighting and writing’s deepest layers of beauty lie not only in the physical and mental realms of what we know, but also as an incognizable instinct, a realm we will never fully know but will forev...”
“It’s cool when fashion recycles itself, it’s not cool when sustainable living does because it means there was (and is as I write) a period of absolute and possibly irreversible destruction.”
“Remember: to succeed beyond your wildest dreams you need some pretty wild dreams to begin with.”
“If people doubt you, then you made progress from "who cares?”
“And with a frenzied, frightened, anxious heart, she tumbled headfirst into the life she was destined to live.- Future”
