Elizabeth Willis > Quotes

“It’s not over yet.
A dream can spend
all night fighting off
the morning. Let me
start again.

—Elizabeth Willis, from "Ephemeral Stream." Poem-A-Day January 2, 2014”
― Elizabeth Willis

“I thought I was reading but suddenly I'm read. Some kind of artist then, painting his targets. Distinct or indistinct sensation? I prefer clarity when I can afford it. So what if another flower plagiarized the rosary?”
― Elizabeth Willis, Meteoric Flowers

“extremes of affection
only to be seen when the mind’s a heart.”
― Elizabeth Willis, Alive: New and Selected Poems

“We're rowing like Greeks before those trees turn to treason, erased of all their writing.”
― Elizabeth Willis, Meteoric Flowers

“If Lucy rules
the castle of indolence

I joy to dream
a more fortunate planet.”
― Elizabeth Willis, Meteoric Flowers

“This is my heart, a bird in the building.”
― Elizabeth Willis, Meteoric Flowers

“I was looking in the window of a newer Canaan, but the dew on its lilies tasted like salt.”
― Elizabeth Willis, Meteoric Flowers

“Don't speak till sound has eclipsed its idea.”
― Elizabeth Willis, Meteoric Flowers

“What moves in a straight line eventually disappears. What moves in a circle can live forever.”
― Elizabeth Willis, Liontaming in America

“Does the task love the master?”
― Elizabeth Willis