LITTLE DOGS RHAPSODY IN THE NIGHT(PERCY THREE)He puts his cheek against mineand makes small, expressive sounds.And when I'm awake, or awake enoughhe turns upside down, his four pawsin the airand his e...
Imagination is better than a sharp instrument. To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
I believe you did not have a happy life.I believe you were cheated.I believe your best friends were loneliness and misery.I believe your busiest enemies were anger and depression.I believe joy was a g...
Things take the time they take.Don't worry.How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?
I feel the terror of idleness,like a red thirst.Death isn't just an idea.
It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go...
Maybe deathisn't darkness, after all,but so much lightwrapping itself around us
When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement.--from WHEN DEATH COMES
There was a new voicewhich you slowlyrecognized as your own,that kept you companyas you strode deeper and deeperinto the world,determined to dothe only thing you could do
the stars began to burnthrough the sheets of clouds,and there was a new voicewhich you slowlyrecognized as your own
Tell me,what is it you plan to do
Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.
Still, what I want in my lifeis to be willingto be dazzled—to cast aside the weight of factsand maybe even
I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing, as though I had wings.
One day you finally knewwhat you had to do, and began,though the voices around youkept shoutingtheir bad advice --though the whole housebegan to trembleand you felt the old tugat your ankles.Mend my l...
Sometimes breaking the rules is just extending the rules
If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can nev...
I tell you thisto break your heart,by which I mean onlythat it break open and never close againto the rest of the world.
You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn’t need anymore of that sound.So if you’re going to do it and can’t stop yourself, if your pretty mouth can’t hold it in,...