“Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled—
to cast aside the weight of facts
and maybe even
to float a little
above this difficult world.”
―
is to be willing
to be dazzled—
to cast aside the weight of facts
and maybe even
to float a little
above this difficult world.”
―
“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.”
― A Poetry Handbook
― A Poetry Handbook
“When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement.
--from WHEN DEATH COMES”
― New and Selected Poems, Volume One
--from WHEN DEATH COMES”
― New and Selected Poems, Volume One
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