All Quotes By Tag: Poetry

“At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.”

“I don’t need your praiseto survive. I was here first, before you were here, beforeyou ever planted a garden.And I’ll be here when only the sun and moonare left, and the sea, and the wide field.I will constitute the field.”

“Xs and OsLove is a gameof tic-tac-toe,constantly waiting,for the next x or o.”

“[Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff] Well you know I wonder, it could be love running toward my life with its arms up yelling let’s buy it what a bargain!”

“Strategy for a MarathonI will startwhen the gun goes off.I will runfor five miles.Feeling good,I will run to the tenth mile.At the tenthI will say,Only three moreto the halfway.”At the halfway mark,13.1 miles,I will knowfifteen is in reach.At fifteen milesI will say,You’ve run twenty before,keep going.”At twenty I will say,Run home.”

“How far away the stars seem, and how farIs our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart!”

“When someone offers you lines like that, he must be Mephistopheles and you must be Faust. You know you shouldn’t succumb to such language, but you succumb.”

“It must be a little love, – a baby, sort of,It shies away when the cars honk and hiss,But adores the bells on the horse-tram.”

“When the star dies, Its eye closes; tired of watching, It flies back to its first bright dream.”

“Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets, there you go, a new label for those with unstable allegiances.”

“The busybody (banned as sexist, demeaning to older women) who lives next door called my daughter a tomboy (banned as sexist) when she climbed the jungle (banned; replaced with “rain forest”) gym. Then she had the nerve to call her an egghead and a bookworm (both banned as offensive; replaced with “intellectual”) because she read fairy (banned because suggests homosexuality; replace with “elf”) tales.I’m tired of the Language Police turning a deaf ear (banned as handicapism) to my complaints. I’m no Pollyanna (banned as sexist) and will not accept any lame (banned as offensive; replace with “walks with a cane”) excuses at this time.If Alanis Morrissette can play God (banned) in Dogma (banned as ethnocentric; replace with “Doctrine” or “Belief”), why can’t my daughter play stickball (banned as regional or ethnic bias) on boy’s night out (banned as sexist)? Why can’t she build a snowman (banned, replace with “snow person”) without that fanatic (banned as ethnocentric; replace with “believer,” “follower,” or “adherent”) next door telling her she’s going to hell (banned; replaced with “heck” or “darn”)?Do you really think this is what the Founding Fathers (banned as sexist; replace with “the Founders” or “the Framers”) had in mind? That we can’t even enjoy our Devil (banned)-ed ham sandwiches in peace? I say put a stop to this cult (banned as ethnocentric) of PC old wives’ tales (banned as sexist; replace with “folk wisdom”) and extremist (banned as ethnocentric; replace with “believer,” “follower,” or “adherent”) conservative duffers (banned as demeaning to older men).As an heiress (banned as sexist; replace with “heir”) to the first amendment, I feel that only a heretic (use with caution when comparing religions) would try to stop American vernacular from flourishing in all its inspirational (banned as patronizing when referring to a person with disabilities) splendor.”

“O Stunden in der Kindheit,da hinter den Figuren mehr als nurVergangnes war und vor uns nicht die Zukunft.”

“Then others for breath of words respect,Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect.”

“After the leaves have fallen, we returnTo a plain sense of things. It is as ifWe had come to an end of the imagination,Inanimate in an inert savoir.”

“At five in the afternoon. It was exactly five in the afternoon. A boy brought the white sheet at five in the afternoon. A frail of lime ready prepared at five in the afternoon. The rest was death, and death alone”