poetry

"...but it is good to be several floors up in the dead of night wondering whether you are any good or not and the only decision you can make is that you did it..."

"A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level."

"You will recognize your own path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need."

"A lot we have in our head,But things of heart are not yet dead,They have done none, but just fled,Out of us, Forgotten, just been bled.."

"their heart grew coldthey let their wings down"

"She was stuck in between two worlds while her heart was pulling them both together. In a perfect world, she'd have both, or none at all. The symbol for love is two circles trying to merge in a Venn diagram that comes to a point down below, and only mostly separate are the two orbs one whole heart.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz"

"The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world."

"This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper."

"to live in this worldyou must be ableto do three thingsto love what is mortal;to hold itagainst your bones knowingyour own life depends on it;and, when the time comes to let it go,to let it go"

"قلت لكم مراراإن الطوابير التي تمر..في استعراض عيد الفطر والجلاء(فتهتف النساء في النوافذ انبهارا)لا تصنع انتصارا.إن المدافع التي تصطف على الحدود، في الصحارىلا تطلق النيران.. إلا حين تستدير للوراء.إن الرصاصة التي ندفع فيها.. ثمن الكسرة والدواء:لا تقتل الأعداءلكنها تقتلنا.. إذا رفعنا صوتنا جهاراتقتلنا، وتقتل الصغارا !"

"ConnubialBecause with alarming accuracy she’d been identifying patterns I was unaware of—this tic, that tendency, like the way I've mastered the language of intimacy in order to conceal how I felt— I knew I was in danger of being terribly understood."

"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language."

"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."

"For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity."

"I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it."

"He could build a city. Has a certain capacity. There’s a niche in his chestwhere a heart would fit perfectlyand he thinks if he could just maneuver one into place –well then, game over."

"Lovers alone wear sunlight."

"Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations - they are the most graceful media in which the lines of society are distorted."

"I am deliberate and afraid of nothing."

"Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare."