All Quotes By Tag: Poetry
“So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing,and put your lips to the world.And live your life.”
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“O stand, stand at the window As the tears scald and start;You shall love your crooked neighbour With your crooked heart.”
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“Lie beside me, oh my beloved! For thy thorns are more pleasurable than the petals of the world.Hold me in thy arms of hope, for the truth of separation can rest tonight.”
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“To the knights of faith nobody believes.”
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“When you write about what you dream, you become a writer.When you dream about what you write, you become haunted by a curse.”
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“Total knowledge is annihilation Of the desire to see, to touch, to feel The world sensed only through senses And immune to the knowledge without feeling.”
“Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge.”
“So the freshness lives onin a lemon,in the sweet-smelling house of the rind,the proportions, arcane and acerb.”
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“All those other girls are cake…I’m Crème brûlée…Tiramisu, if you will. Just a few notches above.”
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“These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand.They are only meant to terrify & comfort.”
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“I feel there is an angel in me’ she’d say ‘whom I amconstantly shocking”
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“Unasked, Unsought, Love gives itself but is not bought”
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“Used to be hewas my heart’s desire.His forthright gaze,his expert hands:I’d lie on the couch with my eyesclosed just thinking about it.Never about the factthat everything changes,that even this,my best passion,would not be immune.No, I would bask on in aneternal daydream of the handsfinding me, the gaze like a windingstair coaxing me down. . . .Until I caught a glimpseof something in the mirror:silly girl in her lingerie,dancing with the furniture–a hot little bundle, flush withcliches. Into that pairof too-bright eyes I lookedand saw myself. And something else:he would never look that way.”
“I’d rather be thin than famousbut I’m fatpaste that in your broadway show”
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