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Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
Finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam, Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes.
The dandy should aspire to be uninterruptedly sublime. He should live and sleep in front of a mirror.
What is it that brings on these moods of yours? Nothing mysterious: the ordinary pain of being alive.
Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.
you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old.
since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light
Four days alone with nothing. Emerge empowered. The first human face you see will knock you back 50%.
I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.
If I'm an ass, I should say so. If I don't, somebody else will. If I say it first, that disarms them.
When I'm drinking around people, I tend to get silly or pugnacious or wild, which can cause problems.
You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.
Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator.
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon a little child; Pity my simplicity, Suffer me to come to thee.
If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer.
I thought of the pillowcases as a symbol of love and loss, of retaining the memory of your loved one.
At the midpoint on the journey of life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the clear path was lost.
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.
Praise the invisible sun burning beyond the white cold sky, giving us light and the chimney's shadow.
Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t.
To begin at the beginning: It is a spring moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black.
time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough
Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love.
I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.
When god decided to invent everything he took one reath bigger than a circustent and everything began
I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.
it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.
The poet who does not revere his art, and believe in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the purple.
The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.
The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
It's very important to me to be an American poet, a Jewish poet, a poet who came of age in the 1960s.
Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd; He that hath none must make them, or be wretched.
Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.
Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
I don't think that art, if it's isolated and specialized, can really create culture. It needs a cult.
Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash.
Sometimes true tolerance requires an extraordinary strength, which we are often too weak to exercise.
In each thing there is an insinuation of death. Stillness, silence, serenity are all apprenticeships.
What's the furthest corner? Because that's where I want to be, alone with the only thing that I love.
The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.
If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory.
Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.
Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies
If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.
With kids, they force you to get out of bed. They force you to smile. They remind you of spontaneity.
Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones.