poetry

"When I die, don't come, I wouldn't want a leafto turn away from the sun -- it loves it there.There's nothing so spiritual about being happybut you can't miss a day of it, because it doesn't last."

"Kill what you can't savewhat you can't eat throw outwhat you can't throw out buryWhat you can't bury give awaywhat you can't give away you must carry with you,it is always heavier than you thought."

"She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars."

"I may not always be with you But when we're far apartRemember you will be with meRight inside my heart"

"You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link.This is but half the truth.You are also as strong as your strongest link.To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of the oceanby the frailty of its foam.To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy."

"We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings."

"You will come away bruised.You will come away bruisedbut this will give you poetry."

"I don’t want my love with her to wither like grapes on a vine, so I’ll water it with romance to turn it into wine."

"What a strange thing!to be alivebeneath cherry blossoms."

"Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war"

"In my darkest night,when the moon was coveredand I roamed through wreckage,a nimbus-clouded voicedirected me:“Live in the layers,not on the litter.”Though I lack the artto decipher it,no doubt the next chapterin my book of transformationsis already written.I am not done with my changes."

"My heart born nakedwas swaddled in lullabies.Later alone it worepoems for clothes.Like a shirtI carried on my backthe poetry I had read.So I lived for half a centuryuntil wordlessly we met.From my shirt on the back of the chairI learn tonighthow many yearsof learning by heartI waited for you."

"You're trying not to tell him you love him, and you're trying to choke down the feeling, and you're trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you've discovered something you don't even have a name for."

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

"Her happiness floated like waves of ocean along the coast of her life. She found lyrics of her life in his arms but she never sung her song."

"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor WitShall lure it back to cancel half a Line,Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it."

"And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!"

"It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong."

"If you want me again look for me under your boot soles."

"Is it the sea you hear in me,Its dissatisfactions?Or the voice of nothing, that was you madness?"