Rahshell Dorsey > Rahshell's Quotes

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”
― W.H. Auden, New Year Letter

“i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite new a thing.
Muscles better and nerves more.
i like your body. i like what it does,
i like its hows. i like to feel the spine
of your body and its bones, and the trembling
-firm-smooth ness and which i will
again and again and again
kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,
i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz
of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes
over parting flesh ... And eyes big love-crumbs,

and possibly i like the thrill

of under me you so quite new.”
― e.e. cummings

“The Little Boy and the Old Man

Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon."
Said the old man, "I do that too."
The little boy whispered, "I wet my pants."
I do that too," laughed the little old man.
Said the little boy, "I often cry."
The old man nodded, "So do I."
But worst of all," said the boy, "it seems
Grown-ups don't pay attention to me."
And he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand.
I know what you mean," said the little old man.”
― Shel Silverstein

“Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”
― Robert Frost

“Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.”
― E.E Cummings

“Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”
― E.E. Cummings

“The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.”
― E.E. Cummings

“life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis”
― E.E. Cummings

“i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses”
― e.e. cummings

“And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again.”
― E.E. Cummings

“nothing proving or sick or partial. Nothing false,nothing difficult or easy or small or colossal. Nothing ordinary or extraordinary,nothing emptied or filled,real or unreal;nothing feeble and known or clumsy and guessed. Everywhere tints childrening, innocent spontaneous,true. Nowhere possibly what flesh and impossibly such a garden,but actually flowers which breasts are among the very mouths of light. Nothing believed or doubted; brain over heart, surface:nowhere hating or to fear;shadow, mind without soul. Only how measureless cool flames of making;only each other building always distinct selves of mutual entirely opening;only alive. Never the murdered finalities of wherewhen and yesno,impotent nongames of wrongright and rightwrong;never to gain or pause,never the soft adventure of undoom,greedy anguishes and cringing ecstasies of inexistence; never to rest and never to have:only to grow.
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.”
― E. E. Cummings

“Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.”
― e.e cummings

“Love is the whole and more than all.”
― E.E. Cummings, 100 Selected Poems

“You are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing.”
― E.E. Cummings

“who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you”
― e. e. cummings

“Like the color pink, someone always sees the story different. Some see rose and magenta, and other see coral and salmon. When at the end of the day, it’s just regular old pink.”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, Monday's Not Coming

“This is the story of how my best friend disappeared. How nobody noticed she was gone except me. And how nobody cared until they found her . . . one year later.”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, Monday's Not Coming

“You only get one shot at your kids, so you need to hit the bull’s-eye.”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, Monday's Not Coming

“Rumors are born with legs that can run a mile in less than a minute. Rumors eat up dreams without condiments. Rumors do not have expiration dates. Rumors can be deadly. Rumors can get you killed.”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, Monday's Not Coming

“Mondays are the best days! Like, aren’t you excited about the start of a new week? It’s like a new chapter in a book.”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, Monday's Not Coming