Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.
For me poems are acts re-done, and that can vibrate well into the future.
What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.
In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.
God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.
My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine.
A lot of people telling the same story from their various points of view.
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
The trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry.
Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.
I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
Despair doth strike as deep a furrow in the brain as mischief or remorse.
Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.
I moved to Lucerne, where I have lived happily with my family ever since.
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.
There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.
If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.
Today I had a strange warning. I felt the wind of insanity brush my mind.
Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.
The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.
All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong.
some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
the people are the biggest horror show on earth, have been for centuries.
It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.
we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.
A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do.
Was I the only person who was distracted by this future without a chance?
One more drink and you're dead. This is no way to talk to a suicide head.
It’s hard to drink when you dance. And it’s hard to dance when you drink.
Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.
Any time I find medicine that's helpful, I share it with everyone I know.
Lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path.
Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow.
A book is kind because its pages let us know when it is coming to an end.
I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.
There is a lot of silence in watching somebody trying to remember things.
We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.
Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers.
Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black.
Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.
Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.
Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.
Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.
The fire in leaf and grass so green it seems each summer the last summer.
Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.
American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.