87 quotes found
“Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”
“Remembrance and reflection how allied!What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide!”
“Don't be afraid of poetry.”
“No one could say the stories were uselessfor as the tongue clackedfive or forty fingers stitchedcorn was grated from the huskpathwork was piecedor the darning was done...(from 'The Storyteller Poems')”
“You bear a sword and shield, remind meof her labor, her stoning gaze. What beastwill your blade free next? What call will you loosefrom another woman's throat?”
“It is so hard to stay afloat in a world that just wants to drown you.”
“i act harder than i am.i am softer than i look.”
“There is no poetry without want. Desperate want.”
“To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.”
“Oh that's right Keep away from me Please give me a pushDon't let me understand you Don't realise meOr we might tumble togetherDepersonalizedIdenticalInto the terrific NirvanaMe you --- you --- me”
“So, the world happens twice--once what we see it as;second it legends itselfdeep, the way it is.”
“At times poems can be like riddles, too difficult to decipher or comprehend. But how else does one come to understand what can only be felt but not said?”
“The poet drafts his work as a writer but edits it as a sculptor, with his pen as a chisel and his mind a hammer.”
“To truly understand poetry one must understand themselves from within ones self.”
“it is to be savored like a seabreeze-whispereddream...in the mysteriousblue minutesbefore dawnlike a secretinfatuation.... like slowlanguorous sipsof green tea... like a lingeringglimpsea self-wrap...”
“If the poets offered us nothing more than another make-believe world, they would be mere sellers of drugs or, at best, sweetmeats.”
“poems are small moments of enlightenment”
“The sea waves stirred before methey dashed against the rocksLike a mermaid rising from its depthscurled white sea foam were her locks...”
“I love not man the less, but nature more”
“If I knew where poems came from, I'd go there.”
