“Jesus said,
But I am "alive"!
It's the same material
but lighter,
summer stuff,
star-coil,
Akhmatova's hair...”
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But I am "alive"!
It's the same material
but lighter,
summer stuff,
star-coil,
Akhmatova's hair...”
―
“Don't listen to the words—
they're only little shapes for what you're saying,
they're only cups if you're thirsty, you aren't thirsty.”
― Break the Glass
they're only little shapes for what you're saying,
they're only cups if you're thirsty, you aren't thirsty.”
― Break the Glass
“Never ran this hard through the valley
never ate so many stars
I was carrying a dead deer
tied on to my neck and shoulders
deer legs hanging in front of me
heavy on my chest
People are not wanting
to let me in
Door in the mountain
let me in”
― Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003
never ate so many stars
I was carrying a dead deer
tied on to my neck and shoulders
deer legs hanging in front of me
heavy on my chest
People are not wanting
to let me in
Door in the mountain
let me in”
― Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003
“Yes I know: the thread you have to keep finding, over again, to follow it back to life; I know. Impossible, sometimes.”
― Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003
― Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003
“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.”
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