Come writers and criticsWho prophesize with your penAnd keep your eyes wideThe chance won't come againAnd don't speak too soonFor the wheel's still in spinAnd there's no tellin' whoThat it's namin'For...
We dreamt of a crappy apartment somewhereMaking love while we let the midnight airFlow through the open window, into our closed heartsLeft bitter from heartbreak and too much time apart
Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.
Writing poetry is supernatural. Or, it should be.
your smile.is the ultimategolden dream.all the poemsin the worldare waking up from.
To fall in love with someone's thoughts - the most intimate, splendid romance.
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.
On the last day of the worldI would want to plant a tree
Great poets are great copy editors.
A poet is someone who never forgets they were born naked.
His answer was - not the common gallantries which come so easily to the lips of me - but simply that he loved me - he met argument with fact. He told me - that with himself also, the early freshness o...
Philosophers, Poets and Fools have similar Consciousness
A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.
i writebecauseit is the only wayi can reach you.
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.
We have conversations with each other most nights - Sylvia Plath and me!
I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job
The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet...