87 quotes found
“A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. ”
“only kindness that raises its headfrom the crowd of the world to sayit is I you have been looking for,and then goes with you everywherelike a shadow or a friend.”
“I have a rendezvous with death... I will not fail that rendezvous”
“Most Like an Arch This MarriageMost like an archan entrance which upholds and shores the stone-crush up the air like lace. Mass made idea, and idea held in place. A lock in time. Inside half-heaven...”
“...in that rich earth a richer dust concealed.(I'm flogging a dead horse w/ this one but this is the 1st time I've even seen this quotes feature! I just wanted to post something.)”
“Is stuffed, de world, wif feeding girls.”
“Poems are not often simply emotions butOne has enough emotions -- they're experienceExperience themselves are not important....”
“I rushed through the door.You had bitten a way for me.”
“No poet can stay alive solely in his/her poetry etched in papers, it is the reader audience in whom the poets breath forever.......”
“Thoughtful symmetry in a maze of tortuous confusion, Loving me is a battle, wrought with pain and illusion”
“Poetry is like an unexpected noise in the night: the creak of a door, a footstep on the porch, the soft scuffle of a moth against the screen, which rouses every sense to an instant alert. So comes ...”
“One must speak in such a way that although someone else, or many others, or an infinite number of people have said it before, it seems as though you said it first.”
“I write poems. I'm often laughed at for doing so. My friends and foes, who were born in 1980's or even later aren't savvy with this concept of the reading and writing poems. They're probably not at...”
“In The Shadow Of The NightAll the clouds are gray, and the sky is dark as night. Soft words are spoken, and there's a twinkle, of a flicker of light.The presence of a Man walks by, and Mighty and P...”
“And then, as I got older,I left the woods and lookedat fading stars, dying stars,eternal stars in their heavens,with lips that would kiss and wordsshaped through love songs,a life of journeys to so...”
“A novel is a hearty meal, but poems are the Belgian chocolates of the bookshelf. You can pick one and linger over it. Savour the aroma, the taste, the melting texture, the sweet craving it leaves b...”
“A poem is an event, like a wedding or birth.”
“I started to think about the abyss that separates the poet from the reader and the next thing I knew I was deeply depressed.”
“LoreleiIt is no night to drown in:A full moon, river lapsingBlack beneath bland mirror-sheen,The blue water-mists droppingScrim after scrim like fishnetsThough fishermen are sleeping,The massive ca...”
“Oh, there are no living poets, Miss Van Damn. We're not entirely sure there ever were. They've found some shreds of sonnets in England and, embedded in a chalk wall of a cave in France, some yet un...”
