poetry

"Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them."

"Il pleure dans mon coeurComme il pleut sur la ville.Tears are shed in my heart like the rain on the town."

"All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me."

"Love is a clash of lightnings"

"Compassion is the basis of morality."

"Failure: the renewable resource."

"she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly."

"I want to create a seventeen-syllable word that encompasses the human condition, and then use that word to form the world’s most perfect haiku."

"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."

"Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival."

"You’re not a bad person, you’re just a little bit different and I’m a sucker for that."

"I will love you forever"swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. "I will love you at 4:15 pm next Tuesday"- Is that still as easy?"

"The Girl With Many EyesOne day in the parkI had quite a surprise.I met a girlwho had many eyes.She was really quite pretty(and also quite shocking!)and I noticed she had a mouth,so we ended up talking.We talked about flowers,and her poetry classes,and the problems she'd haveif she ever wore glasses.It's great to know a girlwho has so many eyes,but you really get wetwhen she breaks down and cries."

"I am a work in progress."

"I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation."

"How to Write a PoemCatch the airaround the butterfly."

"Never cry because you have mountains of problem in your hands to solve. Always smile because each problems will someday resolve."

"The night has a thousand eyes,And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one: Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done."

"The most complicated skill is to be simple."

"Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades."