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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.
In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold
What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns?
The sun is all about the world we see, the breath and strength of every spring.
I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears.
My darling boy whom I shall never know, My son, I love you in my deepest fears.
Brighter than fireflies upon the Uji River are your words in the dark, Beloved.
Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.
How could such sweet and wholesome hours be reckoned, but in herbs and flowers?
Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy.
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
The day of fire is coming, the thrush will fly ablaze like a little sky rocket.
When I am asleep I dream what I dream when I am awake. It's a continuous dream.
Glory is a scandal. Let me state once & for all: I do not wish to be civilized.
It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
Indulge, and to thy genius freely give, For not to live at ease is not to live.
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
Between threading a needle and raving insanity is the smallest eye in creation.
There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.
Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!
Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.
That's your response to everything: drink?" "No, that's my response to nothing.
Her eyes always had a frantic, lost look. He could never cure her eyes of that.
There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.
The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.
If honor calls, where'er she points the way The sons of honor follow, and obey.
An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature.
one loves only form, and form only comes into existence when the thing is born.
Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.
A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.
I think that through the narratives of other people you get closer to your own.
I'm very connected to the story, the history, and the trauma people experience.
Depression is a very sensible reaction to just about everything we live in now.
Just being sentient and in a body with the sun coming up is a state of rapture.
Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing!
Ask abundantly, for the measure of your asking shall be that of your receiving.
O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human.
Modesty is not possible in performance in the Caribbean - and that's wonderful.
I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.