#poetry

"sekali berarti sesudah itu mati"

"Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance."

"As the future ripens in the past,so the past rots in the future --a terrible festival of dead leaves."

"and sometimes I sitdown at my typewriterand I thinknot of someonecause there isn't anyoneto thinkabout and i wonderis it worth it"

"ConnubialBecause with alarming accuracy she’d been identifying patterns I was unaware of—this tic, that tendency, like the way I've mastered the language of intimacy in order to conceal how I felt— I knew I was in danger of being terribly understood."

"This is the Hour of Lead – Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow – First – Chill – then Stupor – then the letting go –"

"Grease [10w] Relationships between people are rarely frictionless;they all need grease."

"God vs. Satan [10w] Why can't God and Satan get along?They're both detail-oriented."

"Taco Bell [10w] Taco Bell: Living proof you can shit where you eat."

"Lady Gaga Haiku A cow has a big head, deep voice, a long tongue, butLady Gaga he's not."

"Happiness. It comes onunexpectedly. And goes beyond, really,any early morning talk about it."

"Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference."

"What a comfort to know that God is a poet."

"Poetic inspiration is all around us, and it surrounds us like silent music that makes our hearts vibrate. Any time you give or receive love, you are a part of a living poem."

"Crest Toothpaste: Look, Ma, no cavities!... ...that'll really piss off the TSA agents looking for contraband."

"I hold it true, whate'er befall;I feel it when I sorrow most;'Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all."

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

"Faith is the poetry of our dreams; action is the builder of our reality."

"Happiness [10w] Happiness resides in the quiet pause,not in the pursuit."

"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."