"Let's Face It [10w] If you've peed on enough fire hydrants, you're a dog."
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1996 quotes about poetry
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poetry Quotes
"I just bought a bag of poetry, but it was mostly air. The author must have learned from the potato chip industry."
"Sometimes I think,I need a spare heart to feel all the things I feel."
"Contiguous vs. Continuous Identity Identity's only preserved in death;in life it is ever-changing."
"In the dark I rest,unready for the light which dawnsday after day,eager to be shared.Black silk, shelter me.I needmore of the night before I openeyes and heartto illumination. I must stillgrow in the dark like a rootnot ready, not ready at all."
"Russian, Umerzhurnalistka Someone who too many questions for his own good. Literally, 'Dead journalist'."
"Ballz Deep & Strange Haiku [1] Down the schnapps, third eye,cat flaps, pussy hole, fish lips,cha cha, ooo la la."
"The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first."
"This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say."
"Ode to a Wastepaper Basket I love the way you sit in the corner,gracious like a lover,catching my every crumpled vanity."
"Predestination [10w] 'Twas predestined that I'd call predestination a crock of shit."
"Enigmatic Real Estate I choose to live on the edge of mysterywith its inscrutable view of complexityhedged by perplexity.Also, there's a Walmart nearby."
"Dysfunctional vs. You're One Fucked Up Bitch [10w] "Causing pain's the only way you know how to love."
"DNA [10w] DNA's the last hope of our species,spiraling to extinction."
"Pamela Anderson Haiku Ben Stillerbeds Pamela Anderson.My alarm clock rings"
"You don’t know anything, but I know even less."
"Deaf [10w] No man suffers deafness if he listens with his eyes."
"The aching in my chest isn't because I miss you,it's realizing that you have become someone I no longer know,your fears, your 4 am thoughts, your achievements,are things I no longer have an equivalent to.Who we were and who we are are four different people, and the me from now doesn't relate to the me from then, let alone to the you from now.-Tanzy Sayadi and Jarod Kintz"
"And, even yet, I dare not let it languish,Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain;Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,How could I seek the empty world again?"
"Patriotism [10w] Patriotism for the rich is a subtle synonym for profiteering."