#poetry

"No-brainers [10w] No-brainers are challenging enough for people with no fucking brains."

"Government Intrusion [10w] + {Couplet} America's biggest illusion is the beliefthey're free from government intrusion."

". . . All artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them."

"Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies — for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry — I say to myself, “What a pity I can’t buy that book, for I already have a copy at home."

"Privacy [10w] Why someone prefers his privacy is itself a private matter."

"Love Scars Love leaves more scars than a ten car pile-up ~and nobody's got insurance."

"Jonesing [10w] Is it odd of me that I'm Jonsesing for strange?"

"What is God? [17] [10w] God has a fondness for cosmology and carbon-based life forms."

"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."

"In fact she herself once blamed meKyprogeneiabecause I prayed this word:I want."

"How happy is the little stoneThat rambles in the road alone,And doesn't care about careers,And exigencies never fears;Whose coat of elemental brownA passing universe put on;And independent as the sun,Associates or glows alone,Fulfilling absolute decreeIn casual simplicity."

"You’re not a bad person, you’re just a little bit different and I’m a sucker for that."

"If you wake up tired, you’ve been chasing dreams. If you go to bed tired, your making your dreams happen."

"Broken [10w] + {Couplet} "His gifts have become broken things, hidden from my view,Sitting on a shelf, above my shoes, like exterminated Jews."

"Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero tal vez la quiero.Es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olvido."

"Marriage [10w] The only thing better than forgiveness in marriage is forgetfulness."

"Who, Me? We marry nearly the same person over and over again,hoping next time they'll get it right."

"Every angel is terrifying."

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

"What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!"