poetry

"If you cannot be a poet, be the poem."

"If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is."

"Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it."

"I have no doubt at all the Devil grins,As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my "literary"sins --The other kind don't matter."

"Love flows like flowers, and grows like water. I’m so thirsty for romance I could drink a dozen roses."

"come back so i can say yes this time do it again now that i know what to call what you didthis time i'll be ready i like it rough now and i'm done with romance i never met another man who loved me so much at first sight he had to hurt me to do it"

"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again."

"I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides."

"I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you."

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

"I wanted all thingsTo seem to make some sense,So we could all be happy, yes,Instead of tense.And I made up liesSo that they all fit nice,And I made this sad worldA par-a-dise."

"She who reconciles the ill-matched threadsOf her life, and weaves them gratefullyInto a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hallAnd clears it for a different celebration."

"A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits."

"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,Hath had elsewhere its setting,And cometh from afar:Not in entire forgetfulness,And not in utter nakedness,But trailing clouds of glory do we come"

"Let me just pause a minute and drink in this moment. And if you film it, I’ll be able to get free refills for life."

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

"I was dead until you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you came...and I was awakened."

"Nothingwould beeasier withoutyou,because youare everything,all of it-sprinkles, quarks, giantdonuts, eggs sunny-side up-youare the ever-expandinguniverseto me."

"To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape."

"Fee-fi-fo-fum -Now I'm borrowed.Now I'm numb."