322 quotes found
“We have all seen them circling pastures, have looked up from the mouth of a barn, a pine clearing, the fences of our own backyards, and have stood amazed by the one slow wing beat, the endless dihe...”
“Shadow of Your SpiritAt night I see the shadow of your spiritMixing with my blood and soulDuring the day I see your photosThey tell me come to meCome to my world and romanceEven I dont know by myse...”
“I tossed a stone into the Sea To see what it would do for me And the ripples went out And became ocean waves To return to the Sea inside of me”
“The poem says you only think youre alive but about to be born your radioactive heliographs mock the moons tongue. Philip Lamantia, Fin Del Mundo”
“Be Vast, Solitary, Down to Earth and Firm”
“I adore forgotten words, long lost folk tales, and books with pages soft and crumbling. I am a collector of scents and memories. The things that others bury are the things I hold most dear.”
“ and Ill be happy here and happy there, fullof tea and tears”
“ my words are lovewhich willfully parades inits room, refusing to move.”
“How muchI want you,I don't know.”
“no time agoor else a lifewalking in the darki met christjesus)my heartflopped overand lay stillwhile he passed(asclose as im to youyes closermade of nothingexcept loneliness.”
“If perfection is absurd, why is tragedy common?”
“I find that the thoughts spoken between the lines are the most important parts of a poem or story.”
“Wadsworth MoorWhere the millstone of skyGrinds light and shadow so purple-fineAnd has ground it so longGrinding the skin off the earthEarth bleeds her raw true darknessA land naked now as a woundTh...”
“Have you sipped your poems today?”
“Anything is a poem if you say it often enough.”
“In lands I never saw, they say, Immortal Alps look down,Whose bonnets touch the firmament,Whose sandals touch the town, Meek at whose everlasting feetA myriad daisies play.Which, sir, are you, and ...”
“A woman is a poem, a man is a report”
“Inside the woods is an abandoned hotel.Trees grow in the lobbyand up through the rooms.Limbs jut out through the windows.It looks like outsideinside.I climb the treesthrough 1000 rooms.I look for y...”
“and angle of vision, dust, gravity, solitude, and the part of the law which is the world's waitingand the part of the law which is my waiting,and the part which is my impatiencenow; now?though ther...”
“At childhoods end, the houses petered outinto playing fields, the factory, allotmentskept, like mistresses, by kneeling married men, the silent railway line, the hermits caravan, till you came at l...”
