191 quotes found
“Forgive me,joy,if I blasphemed youbefore I learned to love.”
“i see poets riding the red winds unchecked by the borders of time, wandering with light feet over the land mines and trip wires, barbed and barbarian, unfettered through the barriers that curtail t...”
“Imagine a sunset, lavender and red / as battered morals . . .”
“I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;Her coat is one of the tabby kind,with tiger stripes and lepard spots.”
“A language is a map of our failures”
“Our age has built itself vast reservoirs of power / formless as the straining energy that it wrests from the earth.”
“The untented Kosmos my abode,I pass, a wilful stranger:My mistress still the open roadAnd the bright eyes of danger.”
“Write to me your most perfect epitaph, or I shall compare a poet to a lecturer. Thou art more Spartan than a ballad monger who makes his living as a Wal-Mart greeter;”
“No one understands now. Those who couldhear a song this deeply vanished long ago.”
“Our story has been told,our song has been sung.You're a road Ive already traveled,and from it, I have moved on."Already Traveled”
“Talk to me in poetry. / It is all I understand.”
“I offer you my soulWithin are my flawsMy grace, my kindnessMy love for you"The Offer”
“I want to show my sins withinTo help make me sinless, once again"What I Want”
“And when I feelthe masks beneathcrumble and fade withtime I build new onesto replace the old."Masks"- Sins Within”
“so quiet now my dearest knightyour armor shines white stillfor my lips shall not say the wordsthat make you flee with fear"White Knight”
“I can no longer trust in this loveIt has fallen like the saints aboveAll because of your sweet liesYou sang them like a lullaby"Phoenix”
“I fancied you'd return the way you said,But I grow old and I forget your name. --From the poem "Mad Girl's Love Song”
“The days of the future stand in fornt of usLike a line of candles all alightGolden and warm and lively little candlesThe days that are past are left behind”
“They were too much to carryso i left them behindfor a new life, in a new placebut no one forgot who i wasi didn'tand neither did the people who watchthey watched for yearsthey watch now”
“Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country”
