i know it all ends the same,but i was interested in seeinghow you would break my heart.
i want to be in love with youthe same wayi am in love with the moonwith the lightshiningout of its soul.
An art in which the artist by means of rhythm and great sincerity can convey to others the sentiment which he feels about life.
Love is almost never simple.
Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house
Poets can't march in protest or do that sort of thing. I feel that's against the rules, and pointless. If mankind wants a great big final bang, that's what it'll get. One should never protest against...
I write because there are things in me that cannot die.
funny how our heartswere designed to loveso fiercely.but break ever so gently.
i would rather havefeelings without wordsthan words without feelings.
I bargained with Life for a penny,And Life would pay no more, However I begged at eveningWhen I counted my scanty store;For Life is just an employer,He gives you what you ask,But once you have set the...
You either a poet or a homosexual. Oh, shit, that's fucked up. Why can't I be both?
What was it Like?What was what like? he said, although he knew.Quick, I imagine. But you must have perceived something. A split second of vanishing awareness. A grasping at a shrinking light. It was l...
If you're an artist, always keep at it, there will be someone out there who sees the universe and soul in what you've created. Maybe they can't afford it, but it calls them like the siren in a sea, an...
Tell me something only you know and make a new friend.
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.
I waited for the seasons of love to pass from this cold winter to the summer heat I dreamed of.
A poem is a meteor.
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
Great poets are great copy editors.