poetry

"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop."

"She wildly burned for the one she loved and he stood there watching, hoping he too would catch a blaze from the violence stirring in her heart."

"There is another world, and it is in this one."

"I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create."

"Cut my life into pizzas. this is my plastic fork. oven baking, no breathing, dont give a fuck if its carbs that i'm eating' -Catherine Spann"

"I am not yours, not lost in you,Not lost, although I long to beLost as a candle lit at noon,Lost as a snowflake in the sea.You love me, and I find you stillA spirit beautiful and bright,Yet I am I, who long to beLost as a light is lost in light."

"This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul."

"i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)"

"Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you.Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you.And without feet I can make my way to you,without a mouth I can swear your name.Break off my arms, I'll take hold of youwith my heart as with a hand.Stop my heart, and my brain will start to beat.And if you consume my brain with fire,I'll feel you burn in every drop of my blood."

"She needed the chaos within her in order to discover the extraordinary no man could ever reach."

"Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall."

"Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink;Water, water, everywhere,Nor any drop to drink."

"Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life."

"The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice."

"It was at that agethat poetry came in search of me."

"Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely."

"No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place."

"The master said You must write what you see.But what I see does not move me.The master answered Change what you see."

"You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself."

"A little learning is a dangerous thing.Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring;There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,and drinking largely sobers us again."