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Everybody knows that smiling is for little girls, the gays and certain kinds of fish who are smiling by accident.
I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.
For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.
Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.
We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized.
Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite.
places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notice that?
Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . .
The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.
Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.
The desire to force love to live only in its most positive form is what causes love ultimately to fall over dead.
Hope not ever to see heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore; into the eternal darkness; into fire and ice.
Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary
I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing.
Heartbreak is how we mature... There is almost no path a human being can follow that does not lead to heartbreak.
If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.
Of course newspaper sportswriting is mostly terrible - and of course it is usually the best writing in the paper.
Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
[After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine.
[To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit.
The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs.
If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way.
Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is, that they sing, and that they love. While I listen to thy Voice.
Her lawn looks like a meadow, And if she mows the place She leaves the clover standing And the Queen Anne's Lace.
The very good thing about MFA programs is their democratizing. They bring a lot of different people to the table.
What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfies, it censures too.
For death, Now I know, is that first breath Which our souls draw when we enter Life, which is of all life center.
Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.
Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
I know there is no straight road No straight road in this world Only a giant labyrinth Of intersecting crossroads
The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.
The Gods sell when they give. Glory is paid for with disgrace. Poor are the happy, for they are Just what passes.
If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal.
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.
He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it. [He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it.]
I have desired to go Where springs not fail, To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail And a few lilies blow.
The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.
We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.
Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.
For this is love's truth; she joins two in one being, makes sweet sour, strangers neighbors, and the lowly noble.
Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change.
You can't evaluate a prospective partner if you insulate your relationship from your family and friends--and his.
Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours.
Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves.
It is autumn; not without But within me is the cold. Youth and spring are all about; It is I that have grown old.
I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?
To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.