poetry

"because some thingssometimesaren't ours to hold,but just beautiful to listen to."

"A flowing flurry of flowers fell to the floor when I fell in love, as if my heart were a garden that gushed forth and flooded her being with the fragrance of romance."

"But one kiss levitates above all the others. Theintersection of function and desire. The I do kiss.The I’ll love you through a brick wall kiss.Even when I’m dead, I’ll swim through the Earth,like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones."

"My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break."

"Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other."

"life's not a paragraphAnd death i think is no parenthesis"

"I am the red wheelbarrow of communism. William Carlos Williams wrote a poem about me."

"Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!"

"You are always new. THe last of your kisses was ever the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest. When you pass'd my window home yesterday, I was fill'd with as much admiration as if I had then seen you for the first time...Even if you did not love me I could not help an entire devotion to you."

"...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..."

"This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls."

"Laugh, and the world laughs with you;Weep, and you weep alone;For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,But has trouble enough of its own."

"Calligraphy of geeseagainst the sky-the moon seals it."

"So for now,I will miss you like I’ll never see you again,And the next time I see you,I will kiss you like I’ll never kiss you again,And when I fall asleep beside you I will fall asleep as if I’ll never wake up again,because I don’t know if I will.I don’t know if I will.- I Will Love You Like The World Is Ending"

"You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I."

"I am that last, thatfinal thing, the bodyin a white sheet listening,"

"I haven’t been very impressed lately.By people,or places,or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind."

"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."

"We ran as if to meet the moon."

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