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The word dropped like a stone on my still living breast. Confess: I was prepared, am somehow ready for the test.
a woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion.
I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-
I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer!
Jewels! Today each twig is important, each ring, each infection, each form is all that the gods must have meant.
Here in the hospital, I say,that is not my body, not my body.I am not here for the doctorsto read like a recipe.
Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.
History Coming too close Is monstrous, like a doll That is alive and bigger than the child Who tries to hold it.
Love manifests itself in our bodies as instinctive craving, in our souls as devotion, and in our minds as pride.
My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.
As I remember, the first real poem I wrote was about the wheat fields between Spokane and Pullman, to the south.
What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?
Ne cherchez plus mon coeur; les be" tes l'ont mange . Don't search any further for my heart; wild beasts ate it.
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
I have two rules. One is, never trust a man who smokes a pipe. The other is, never trust a man with shiny shoes.
They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work.
Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives.
What? You’d dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?” That’s when you need a drink the most.
I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals.
terror finally becomes almost bearable but never quite terror creeps like a cat crawls like a cat across my mind
The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.
When you're reading from a different language that's different from your own, it's not the same as being fluent.
So, let us push on now, and remember ourselves back to the wild soul. Let us sing her flesh back onto our bones.
Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.
Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.
A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.
I go in and out of season. I won't write for months, and then all of a sudden, I'll write like I've got a fever.
I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.
You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.
A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will make its own way in the world.
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles
I think, that if I touched the earth, It would crumble; It is so sad and beautiful, So tremulously like a dream.
Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet.
Oh, you mean I'm a homosexual! Of course I am, and heterosexual too, but what's that got to do with my headache?
And where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds came to listen with serious and sympathetic mien.
We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.
Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.
Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.
Everybody loved me running for president in '91 and '92 because they never knew a presidential candidate before.
An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
The world is my country, the human race is my race. The spirit of man is my god, the future of man is my heaven.
Relish the fresh landscape of my wound, break rushes and delicate rivulets, drink blood poured on honeyed thigh.
Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.