Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.
In religion is much tiredness of people, a giving over of their doing to Someone Else.
It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me.
We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.
There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.
When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.
I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.
All that grave weight of America Cancelled! Like Greece and Rome. The future in ruins!
O remember In your narrowing dark hours That more things move Than blood in the heart.
Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.
There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.
All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate.
I am not a saint or a cripple, I am not a wound; now I will see whether I am a coward.
The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how.
I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.
Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.
I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.
What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.
Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.
i'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in.
I get so lonely sometimes, I could put a box on my head and mail myself to a stranger.
But how did you come burning down like a wild needle, knowing just where my heart was?
Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? / Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect?
What can we do about God, who makes and then breaks every god-forsaken, beautiful day?
Everybody has to have their little tooth of power. Everybody wants to be able to bite.
I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.
Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.
It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.
Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed
I think my soul is intact, but my methods of reaching people are completely different.
I do like making people feel uncomfortable - it's separating the wheat from the chaff.
I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
I'm not interested in who suffered the most. I'm interested in people getting over it.
I feel most at home when I am writing a poem—because in that instant, I am everywhere.
Happy who in his verse can gently steer, From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.
A lesbian who does not reinvent the world is a lesbian in the process of disappearing.
Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.
Every new year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?
The song of canaries Never varies, And when they're moulting They're pretty revolting.
But children, hark! Your mother would rather, When you arrived, have been your father.
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor.
He who sins easily, sins less. The very power Renders less vigorous the roots of evil.
Thank you for being interested. Doesn't sound much but it meant just about everything.
A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
O heart, and mind, and thoughts! what thing do you Hope to inherit in the grave below?
A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren.
Every poem, formal or free, has an ideal shape, and the job of the poet is to find it.
Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.