Poet Quotes
By the time you have a platform for saying what you want, you’ve already become part of the system. It’s how it works.
Sometimes reality is a fantastically traumatic nightmare.
Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
A counter to a jab is a left hook. What’s the counter to prejudice?
In The Land of Poetry and Fighting, Efficiency rules the throne. I try to live here, so I shave my head because hair is dead and dead is inefficient.
Tell Evil men of your sins and they will use it against you Tell a sinner of your sins and they will pray for you
You'll learn wisdom for yourself, if you have become sedentary.
Thinking is easy, acting difficult, and to put one's thoughts into actions the most difficult thing in the world.
I believe that that love remains strong and intense in your memory because it was your first deep aloneness and the first inner work that you did on your life.
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question.
My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out.
The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.