"Lowbrows vs. Highbrows If you show something lowbrow to a highbrow does it wind up becoming crusty eye caca?"
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1996 quotes about poetry
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poetry Quotes
"Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below."
"I found the poems in the fields,And only wrote them down."
"Boundaries [10w] Receiving bribes blurs the clear boundaries between friends and enemies."
"In my darkest night,when the moon was coveredand I roamed through wreckage,a nimbus-clouded voicedirected me:“Live in the layers,not on the litter.”Though I lack the artto decipher it,no doubt the next chapterin my book of transformationsis already written.I am not done with my changes."
"having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor."
"Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?"
"Cookie Cutter Criticism A critic tried to fit my sense of humor in a cookie cutter,but it wouldn't fit his preconceived shape of what comedy should be.So he pressed harder, and harder and harder until the cookie cutter cut a cookie shaperight through the palm of his hand.It doesn't hurt anymore when the critic tries to slap me in the face.There's no more hot-air resistance."
"I should combine a car bumper with a belt, for a fashion accessory that’s safe for office romances. Powdered love poetry sold separately."
"Please Don't Commemorate Me Just Yet [10w] The living are only commemorated when they're at death's door."
"Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not"
"again!"=""Perfect happiness is when your child giggles and yells,"Again!"
"Buddha (Haiku) Buddha, Enlightened,I rub your belly to blessmy Lotto ticket."
"New Year's Revolving Door [10w] + [10w] + {Couplet} 2015's revolution commences with the overthrow of New Year's resolution.Seek not absolutionfor our weak character's immune to evolution."
"I couldn't tell fact from fiction,Or if the dream was trueMy only sure predictionIn this world was you.I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost."
"I am stuffing your mouth with yourpromises and watching you vomit them out upon my face."
"بی قرار توام ودر دل تنگم گله هاستآه بی تاب شدن عادت کم حوصله هاستمثل عکس رخ مهتاب که افتاده در آبدر دلم هستی وبین من وتو فاصله هاستآسمان با قفس تنگ چه فرقی داردبال وقتی قفس پر زدن چلچله هاستبی هر لحضه مرا بیم فرو ریختن استمثل شهری که به روی گسل زلزله هاستباز می پرسمت از مسئله دوری وعشقوسکوت تو جواب همه مسئله هاست"
"Goat Fucking for Dummies You gently fuck a female goat ~you got to ram the malesto make any progress."
"If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall."
"Prolific [10w] "Perhaps I'm prolific because I believe creativity can forestall death."