322 quotes found
“When I was young and miserable and prettyAnd poor, I'd wishWhat all girls wish: to have a husband,A house and children. Now that I'm old, my wishIs womanish:That the boy putting groceries in my car...”
“Hang tightHold on Look upStay strongHang on Hold tightLook strongStay up One day I might breakOne day I mightb r e a kfree”
“They find me odd, and whisper behind handsAnd my brutal desires sink hooks into their lips”
“Cruel, Clever Cat.Sally, having swallowed cheese,Directs down holes the scented breeze,Enticing thus with baited breathNice mice to an untimely death.”
“Touch was absolutelyout of the question. I couldnt stop sweating. My heart, a butterfly pinnedto a glacier. Empires fell inside my mouth. I touched myself like a pogrom& broke my sex into a history...”
“ILikeThe WayThat when youTiltPoemsOn their sideTheyLook likeMiniatureCities FromA long wayAway. SkyscrapersMade outOfWords.”
“Sprawled out on the front lawn/ looking up at an ordinary sky/ it could fall on me and some how be/ the day I didn't die.”
“Ashryver eyes.The fairest eyes, from legends oldof brightest, ringed with gold.”
“I say, flawless poems do not exist.”
“you are as faras the moonand as closeas it feelswhen I look upon it.”
“Imitating others, I failed to find myself. I looked inside and discovered I only knew my name. When I stepped outside I found my real Self. ~Rumi”
“Even when the lights go out, even when someone says to me: "It's over---," even when from the stage a gray gust of emptiness drifts toward me,even when not one silent ancestor sits beside me anymor...”
“Be nothing which thou art not”
“Understand the poem not the poet.”
“You Have Happened To MeLike the first blossom of the spring and the first drizzle of the rain, You have happened to me.With that sudden smile, very close to mine, You have happened to me.When ...”
“All that is gold does not glitterNot all those who wander are lostThe old that is strong does not witherDeep roots are not reached by the frost”
“In snow thou comestThou shalt go with resuming groundThe sweet derision of thx crowAnd Glee's advancing sound”
“But the rare herb, Forgetfulness, / It hides away from me.”
“My Lovely GrandsonYour lovely smile that warms my heartYour infectious laughter that brings me joyI fell in love in with your charming characterGrandma's little boyMay God protect you in every aspe...”
“DO IT NOWIf with pleasure you are viewingany work a man is doing,If you like him or you love him,tell him now;Dont withhold your approbationtill the parson makes orationAnd he lies with snowy lilie...”
