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You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue.
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.
I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.
The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.
Love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons.
Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with.
when the phone rings I too would like to hear words that might ease some of this.
With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.
You have to experiment with different mediums and things around you [making art].
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.
Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity.
Latina women are proud to be called Mrs. That simply means that we have a family.
The greatest tragedy is to live out someone else's life thinking it was your own.
It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large.
If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.
So absolute, it is no other than happiness itself, a breathing too quiet to hear.
My body's urge is to be in a pair of shorts, working and going down to the beach.
Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly.
People Who Do Things exceed my endurance; God, for a man that solicits insurance!
A truly comic, invented world must live at the same time as the world we live in.
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear. . .
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing. That couldn't be done, and he did it.
A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.
All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on his pay-roll.
Dust in an urn long since, dispersed and dead Is great Apollo; and the happier he
The poets needed to learn to pay greater attention to character and to narrative.
Nothing in Nature, much less conscious being, Was e'er created solely for itself.
On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!
Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.
Technology sounds quick and easy, but it ends up taking up too much of your time.
In a machine, every part has a function. In a poem, every word needs to be there.
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
There are not millions of deaths. It happens millions of times that someone dies.
The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed.
As long as his strength permits, the poor mortal must always climb new mountains.
If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it.. it's cheaper in the long run.
I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.
Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.
I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body.