#poetry

"This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say."

"sometimes i don't know, which momentwhich cool gust of wind will come,and enchant metousling my hairand my heart, stirring...that familiar ache of poetry, which drop will kissthe old wrench in my soulreminding me, all over againi miss you better in the rain."

"she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away"

"Natural Born Poets vs. Made Poets A natural born poet sees the future of poetry.A made poet clumsily imitates his vision."

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

"It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have."

"Your Poem A poem is a waking dream.If your poem is shit,then it was a fucking nightmare."

"It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was areal mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was butone mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed andchanged into itself over and over."

"Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason."

"Boundaries [10w] Receiving bribes blurs the clear boundaries between friends and enemies."

"Lonely Marriage is the best refuge of the lonely to be lonely together,and if it lasts long enough,take turns being lonely."

"Time Time waits for no man ~but for hot women Time makes exceptions."

"You're Totally Fucked' Defined [10w] What's before you is hopeless and behind you is negligible."

"No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees,sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air,dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding,our animal passion rooted in the city."

"If I am more alive because love burns and chars me,as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation,it's that he who lays me low is my salvation,and invigorates the more, the more he scars me."

"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake."

"Why We Need Smart People [10w] We need smart people to call other smart people morons."

"There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said."

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

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