Tony Magistrale > Quotes

“I've been writing poems since I was sixteen. Back then, poems were an obvious release for all the frustrations and anxieties associated with adolescence. Mostly, they were a way for me to impress girls, even though I never remember any girls being impressed.”
― Tony Magistrale

“It's a depressingly masculine world we live in, Dolores.”
― Tony Magistrale, Hollywood's Stephen King

“... what was most unfair about being a teenager
was the way time moved with such implacable slowness
most of the time,
only to evaporate into quicksilver at moments like this.”
― Tony Magistrale, What She Says About Love

“We were never visitors here together,
you and I. Yet how easy it is for me
to find you in this place”
― Tony Magistrale, What She Says About Love

“I abandon myself to these alleyways
tonight content to become someone else”
― Tony Magistrale, What She Says About Love

“Let those others
sing of your skill and courage
you keep it still within.”
― Tony Magistrale, What She Says About Love

“remembering what she said about love
trying to live with what I can't rise above.”
― Tony Magistrale, What She Says About Love

“you know lovers walked here,
felt the rising sun against their
upturned faces here, anticipated
tomorrow here, just not today.”
― Tony Magistrale, What She Says About Love

“and what is remembered is so seldom true”
― Tony Magistrale, What She Says About Love