I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I hadn't slept for seven nights.My mother told me I must have slept, it was impossible not to sleep in all that time, but if I slept, it was with my eyes wide open, for I had followed the green, lumin...
I am the magician's girl who does not flinch.
Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals.
And I knew that in spite of all the roses and kisses and restaurant dinners a man showered on a woman before he married her, what he secretly wanted was for her to flatten out underneath his feet like...
I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.
Talking about my fears to others feeds it.
My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death.
Love, love,I have hung our cave with roses.
It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
I was supposed to be having the time of my life.
I wait and ache.
I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
I felt dull and flat and full of shattered visions.
I dreamed that you bewitched me into bedAnd sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.(I think I made you up inside my head.)
I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
I am terrified by this dark thingThat sleeps in me;All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.
EnnuiTea leaves thwart those who court catastrophe,designing futures where nothing will occur:cross the gypsy’s palm and yawning shewill still predict no perils left to conquer.Jeopardy is jejune now:...
But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped...
The prince leans to the girl in scarlet heels,Her green eyes slant, hair flaring in a fanOf silver as the rondo slows; now reelsBegin on tilted violins to spanThe whole revolving tall glass palace hal...