“I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.”
― Selected Poems
― Selected Poems
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
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“Suddenly I realize
That if I stepped out of my body I would break
Into blossom. ”
― Above the River: The Complete Poems
That if I stepped out of my body I would break
Into blossom. ”
― Above the River: The Complete Poems
“Vade Mecum
I want the scissors to be sharp
and the table perfectly level
when you cut me out of my life
and paste me in that book you always carry.”
― Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
I want the scissors to be sharp
and the table perfectly level
when you cut me out of my life
and paste me in that book you always carry.”
― Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
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