#poetry

"forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day"

"A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable."

"Sink or Swim [10w] Lovers master the breaststroke, the crawl and the muff dive."

"The first time I saw her,Everything in my head went quiet."

"I thought my fireplace dead and stirred the ashes. I burned my fingers."

"Prevailing Wins [10w] Truth prevails in private, bullshit in public, integrity in spirit."

"Time present and time pastAre both perhaps present in time futureAnd time future contained in time past."

"Myself [10w] "I don't really know myself;he's only a tenuous acquaintance."

"There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't."

"If we surrenderedto earth's intelligencewe could rise up rooted, like trees."

"...you look at me like an emergency"

"I take thee at thy word:Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;Henceforth I never will be Romeo."

"We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side."

"Memories [10w] Spend half your life creating memories,the other half, remembering."

"Lotto If I won a million bucks in Lotto,I'd give it to Charity.Charity gives great head."

"But you hate poetry!Yes, but you make me want to write it."

"The Refugee I packed my car with cash and valuablesand headed for the border.At the first checkpoint they took my cash.At the second they took my valuables.At the border they took my car and my shoes.I walked barefoot the last 100 feet to freedom,and was greeted with open arms by a person I didn't recognize.In time I discovered that strangerwas the me they could not take from me."

"What's a Proper Tribute to Robin Williams? [10w] When funnymen die is to better to laugh or cry?"

"He ate and drank the precious words,His spirit grew robust;He knew no more that he was poor,Nor that his frame was dust.He danced along the dingy days,And this bequest of wingsWas but a book. What libertyA loosened spirit brings!"

"The Written Word The only thing I hold dearer than myself(and my moms, yo') ~is the written word.I'd give my life for that bitch, (yo'.)"