#poetry

"Of the many forms that silence takes, the most memorable is the dry husk of the cicada."

"We flatter those we scarcely know,We please the fleeting guest;And deal full many a thoughtless blow,To those who love us best."

"I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps outLooking, with its hooks, for something to love."

"Stampede [10w] Her stampede of wild emotions broke down everything once stable."

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

"I Still Have Everything You Gave MeIt is dusty on the edges.It is slightly rotten.I guard it without thinking.I focus on it once a yearwhen I shake it out in the wind.I do not ache.I would not trade."

"Preserving Beauty [10w] + {Couplet} Preserving beauty is futile;even Cleopatra returned to the Nile."

"Waking At NightThe blue river is grey at morningand evening. There is twilightat dawn and dusk. I lie in the darkwondering if this quiet in me nowis a beginning or an end."

"Cada vez que te enamores no expliques a nadie nada, deja que el amor te invada sin entrar en pormenores"

"A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is."

"Science is the poetry of reality."

"Finding Fault [10w] + {Couplet} We find in others faultWhenever our wounds perceives salt."

"Everything comes down so pasteurizedeverything comes down 16 degreesthey say your amplifier is too loudturn your amplifier downare we high all alone on our kneesmemory is just hips that swinglike a clockthe past projects fantastic scenestic/toc tic/toc tic/tocfuck the clock!"

"Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despairRise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more."

"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."

"Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries."

"Misfortune Misfortune is but a stepping stone to great fortune ~especially if your slip and fall was possibly caused by negligenceand you get yourself a good Jew lawyer to sue the parties responsible."

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

"I believe in the flesh and the appetites; Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touch’d from;The scent of these arm-pits, aroma finer than prayer; This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds."

"Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary."