All Quotes By Tag: Poetry
“We are all poets, really.”
“An aged man is but a paltry thing,A tattered coat upon a stick, unlessSoul clap its hands and sing, and louder singFor every tatter in its mortal dress”
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“I believe that open-heart surgery is a mustfor all human beings”
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“And the testicles of the fathers hang down like old lace”
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“…fine love poetry tends to be written when the object of one’s affection is at a safe distance; also, it often reflects a love of words more than a love of women…”
“once I trained for the Olympics but panic is not a sport”
“if what is true brings us sorrow, / if what sorrow brings is truth”
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“Como se acuerda con los pajarosla traduccion de sus idiomas?How is the translation of their languages Arranged with the birds?”
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“I,” I’ll type. And that will be enough.Then there are the other days, when nothing is enough. The poem grins. It grins because it knows it is a terrible poem. It grins in embarrassment. It grins in pity. It grins in superiority. I may be a terrible poem, it grins, but at least I have one comfort. At least I’m not a terrible poet. At least I’m not the guy who sat in front of a typewriter for two hours coming up with the likes of me.”
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“I want a marriage of companions—one of shared lives and shared poems,’ he murmured. ‘If we were husband and wife, we would collect books, read, and drink tea together. As I told you before, I’d want you for what’s in here.’Again he pointed to my heart, but I felt it in a place far lower in my body.”
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“In those days I used to talk to myself as if reciting poetry.”
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“…prose unfolds in time; and time contains both obstacles and revelations. Prose develops, the way characters and situations do. It requires a flow. A poem is an instant, lightning across the sky. Prose is before the storm, the storm, after the storm.”
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“maybe silent hurting is the new Mid-Western love”
“إنني الآنَ أُقيمُ في ساقيةٍ واحدةٍ يَمُرُّ فيها أشباحُ من مَرُّوا على حياتي فأَفسَدوها”
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