10 quotes found
Poet · American · 1905–2006
American poet (1905–2006)
“End with an image and don't explain.”
“What makes the engine go?Desire, desire, desire.”
“You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.”
“Darling, do you rememberthe man you married? Touch me, remind me who I am.”
“I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.”
“...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold bed.”
“Toward dawn we shared with youyour hour of desolation,the huge lingering passionof your unearthly out cry,as you swung your blind headtowards us and laboriously openeda bloodshot, glistening eye,in...”
“In my darkest night,when the moon was coveredand I roamed through wreckage,a nimbus-clouded voicedirected me:Live in the layers,not on the litter.Though I lack the artto decipher it,no doubt the ne...”
“Mind's acres are forever green: Oh, IShall keep perpetual summer here; I shallRefuse to let one startled swallow die,Or, from the copper beeches, one leaf fall.”
“We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted to dream of perfection.”