All Quotes By Tag: Poets
“A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.”
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“They grew; they did not talk about growing.”
“Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.”
“From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.”
“You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.”
“Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.”
“A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.”
“Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writersmystics, painters, troubadoursfor they teach us to see the world through different eyes.”
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“In this storyI am the poetYou’re the poetry.”
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“Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.”
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“When Great Trees FallWhen great trees fall,rocks on distant hills shudder,lions hunker downin tall grasses,and even elephantslumber after safety.When great trees fallin forests,small things recoil into silence,their senseseroded beyond fear.When great souls die,the air around us becomeslight, rare, sterile.We breathe, briefly.Our eyes, briefly,see witha hurtful clarity.Our memory, suddenly sharpened,examines,gnaws on kind wordsunsaid,promised walksnever taken.Great souls die andour reality, bound tothem, takes leave of us.Our souls,dependent upon theirnurture,now shrink, wizened.Our minds, formedand informed by theirradiance,fall away.We are not so much maddenedas reduced to the unutterable ignoranceof dark, coldcaves.And when great souls die,after a period peace blooms,slowly and alwaysirregularly. Spaces fillwith a kind ofsoothing electric vibration.Our senses, restored, neverto be the same, whisper to us.They existed. They existed.We can be. Be and bebetter. For they existed.”
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“It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
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