poetry

"I know the placeI know the place.It is true.Everything we doCorrects the spaceBetween death and meAnd you."

"Fireflies in the GardenBy Robert Frost 1874–1963 Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, And here on earth come emulating flies, That though they never equal stars in size, (And they were never really stars at heart) Achieve at times a very star-like start. Only, of course, they can't sustain the part."

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

"The blood jet is poetryThere is no stopping it."

"This cruel age has deflected me,like a river from this course.Strayed from its familiar shores,my changeling life has flowedinto a sister channel.How many spectacles I've missed:the curtain rising without me,and falling too. How many friendsI never had the chance to meet."

"younot wanting mewasthe beginning of mewanting myselfthank you"

"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race."

"The purpose of poetry is to remind ushow difficult it is to remain just one person,for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will."

"I don’t want my love with her to wither like grapes on a vine, so I’ll water it with romance to turn it into wine."

"Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,So do our minutes hasten to their end;Each changing place with that which goes before,In sequent toil all forwards do contend."

"Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep."

"I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in theresolution of doubts but in their proliferation"

"Truths are written, never said... Lines are drawn, but then they fade."

"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic."

"Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long love’s day."

"See with your soul and not your eyesbecause to dance with the beasts youmust penetrate their disguise."

"Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara.O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac"

"Birds are flyin' south for winter.Here's the Weird-Bird headin' north,Wings a-flappin', beak a-chatterin',Cold head bobbin' back 'n' forth.He says, "It's not that I like iceOr freezin' winds and snowy ground.It's just sometimes it's kind of niceTo be the only bird in town."

"If I never meet you In this lifeLet me feel the lackA glance from your eyesThen my life Will be yours"

"We the mortals touch the metals,the wind, the ocean shores, the stones,knowing they will go on, inert or burning,and I was discovering, naming all the these things:it was my destiny to love and say goodbye."