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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.
Touch me ‘til my ribs become piano keys, ‘til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.
The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.
At six I lived in a graveyard full of dolls, avoiding myself, my body, the suspect in its grotesque house.
Suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build.
Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.
When I look at my life there are these streams, these things that have continuity from the fifties to now.
Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.
Nothing can be sworn impossible since Zeus made night during mid-day, hiding the light of the shining Sun.
Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter
People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
Until we can democratically control the wealth that is created from our labor, there isn't real democracy.
The sun was in mind to come out but having a look at the weather it was in lost heart and went back again.
I'm ready to kill something. I'll probably only get as far as my brain cells, but I am going to kill them.
Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.
I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation
Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always.
if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete.
I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.
In a capitalistic society the losers slaved for the winners and you have to have more losers than winners.
but isn't there always one good thing to look back on? think of how many cups of coffee we drank together.
Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards.
Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood.
Religion Has made an honest woman of the supernatural, And we won't have it kicking over the traces again.
It's not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate.
The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas.
Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame.
My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.
Begin: To have commenced is half the deed. Half yet remains; Begin again on this and thou wilt finish all.
There is another alphabet Whispering from every leaf, Singing from every river, Shimmering from every sky.
Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.
slowly the pale dew-beads of light lapped up from flowers can thicken, darken to gold: honey of the human.
I like to find what's not found at once, but lies within something of another nature, in repose, distinct.
More or Less Love Poems #11: No babe We'd never Swing together but the syncopation would be something wild
There's no word for what Young does, only for what he accomplishes-the capturing of small, daily miracles.
Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.
The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness
Nothing under heaven so strongly doth allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty's love.
I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.
My cultural experiences were as important to my formation as many of the other things that happened to me.
We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun.
Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.
No one can truly see Christ, and drink in the influence of his character, and not be a Christian at heart.
Force cannot transmit a moral principle: moral ideas can be received only through the reason of the heart.
If you would keep your soul From spotted sight or sound, Live like the velvet mole; Go burrow underground.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.