322 quotes found
“STATISTICSPack of Lucky Strikes.A lottery ticket”
“There once was a good man who lived in a house alone.He didn't want any visitors so he kept his doors locked.That is until I knocked, knocked and knocked.The man wouldn't see me at first.He tried t...”
“I am not soft. I do not have that luxury. I am the wolf in girls clothing; all snarls and claws. My mother once told me: be gentle, be kind. She forgot to mention that the world was full of beasts,...”
“I learned from Whitman that the poem is a temple--or a green field--a place to enter, and in which to feel.”
“A poem is about something the way a cat is about the house.”
“Which Are You?"There are two kinds of people on earth to-day;Just two kinds of people, no more, I say.Not the sinner and saint, for it's well understood,The good are half bad, and the bad are half ...”
“Already the ripening barberries are redAnd the old asters hardly breathe in their beds.The man who is not rich now as summer goesWill wait and wait and never be himself.The man who cannot quietly c...”
“Wheres the trail to Cold Mountain?Cold Mountain? Theres no clear way.Ice, in summer, is still frozen.Bright sun shines through thick fog.You wont get there following me.Your heart and mine are not ...”
“If grief could burn outLike a sunken coal,The heart would rest quiet, The unrent soulBe still as a veil; But I have watched all nightThe fire grow silent, The grey ash soft:And I stir the stubborn ...”
“Everything is blood and vines. The mark of another day of revolving the body exact And the sky is ours our hope our blue our silence our throat of burning wildflowers.”
“Safe DepositI thought that I could keep itthe light on the running tide,how your eyes give you awayno matter what you hide.I thought that I could hold itthe forest along the sand,your neck bones li...”
“If I knew what safety looked like, I would have spent less time falling into arms that were not”
“They tended to look at his lips, for his transient gaze was dizzying, though the mouth, you see, the mouth was also a danger, for the teeth would do the unraveling.”
“beware women grownoldwho were neveranything butyoung”
“I always felt it wouldpass.I listened to the charges against meknowing some of them to be truebut certainly notimportant enoughto become the target ofviolence, envy,vengeance.I thought it would sur...”
“My wild heart craves shadows. Like a bat unfurling its wings, I open myself to darkness; I open myself to truth.”
“Regret nothing. Not the cruel novels you read to the end just to find out who killed the cook. Not the insipid movies that made you cry in the dark, in spite of your intelligence, your sophisticati...”
“Air of dustFor a moment I was a storm cloud,All righteous booming thunder;All sharp and pinning,Dazzling.Once the flashing fadedA sizzling prong sprang upwards.I was positively popped.The static si...”
“Poems ancient and modern prowled the ice floes in bear form, filled with words that could wound with their beauty.”
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;”
