poetry

"There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)"

"How could I live above the water or breathe under it. How could I swim in darkness consumed in an ocean of you? Falling or flying towards you, losing or finding myself in you and beauty was never the word to catch all that you are. For now I know the means of the infinite and it all starts and ends with you."

"Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despairRise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more."

"It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road."

"Mind led bodyto the edge of the precipice.They stared in desireat the naked abyss.If you love me, said mind,take that step into silence.If you love me, said body,turn and exist."

"Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry."

"part memory part distance remainingmine in the ways that I learn to miss you"

"To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity."

"I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance."

"I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."

"Your war drum ain't / louder than this breath."

"To fall in love with someone's thoughts - the most intimate, splendid romance."

"The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it."

"To be great, be whole;Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.Be whole in everything. Put all you areInto the smallest thing you do.So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendorBecause it blooms up above."

"Love one another, but make not a bond of love:Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."

"All I know is a door into the dark"

"Hinged to forgetfulness like a door,she slowly closed out of sight,and she was the woman I loved,but too many times she slept likea mechanical deer in my caresses,and I ached in the metal silenceof her dreams."

"Humanity i love you because youare perpetually putting the secret oflife in your pants and forgettingit's there and sitting downon itand because you areforever making poems in the lapof death Humanityi hate you"

"I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem."

"even in the loneliest momentsi have been therefor myself."