All Quotes By Tag: Poetry

“You are my brother and I love you. I love you worshipping in your church, kneeling in your temple, and praying in your mosque. You and I and all are children of one religion, for the varied paths of religion are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being, extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, anxious to receive all.”

“Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.”

“I drink from a small spring, my thirst exceeds the ocean.”

“They kept me in a cage for too long because now every room I am standing in is just another cell.”

“Everything is nothing.”

“So very lovely His blood on her swollen lips His first vampireSo very lovely He would have to remember Each salacious cutHe took her slowly Bled her of secrets and screams He smiled contemplating That vampires bled just like whores.”

“i want to go to the gymand pretend the weight machines are drumsand play the longest drum solo on them”

“You can make a difference in another person’s life and not realize it, just by giving them One Moment of your time, One Memory to recall, One Motion that tells them they are not alone! OM!”

“All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking”

“. . . We love fog becauseit shifts old anomalies into the elementssurrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing”

“A poet could kill the dead.”

“Falling in love was easy-when romantic attraction was combined with hungry, unsated desire, they formed a glamorous, glittering bauble as fragile as it was alluring, a bauble that could shatter as soon as it was grasped.Tenderness was a different story. It had staying power and the promise of a future.”

“But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them puts people out of touch with their creative powers.”

“I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.”

“Song of myselfSmile O voluptuous cool-breath’d earth! Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees! Earth of departed sunset–earth of the mountains misty-topt! Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue! Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river! Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake! Far-swooping elbow’d earth–rich apple-blossom’d earth! Smile, for your lover comes.”