“Love is not a candle burning down. Life is. And love and life are not the same or else Love, having choice, nobody would ever die.”
― The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
― The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
“Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.”
― Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990
― Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990
“that's ONE thing that's wrong with intellectuals and writers - they don't feel a hell of a lot except their own comfort or their own pain. which is normal but shitty.”
― Tales of Ordinary Madness
― Tales of Ordinary Madness
“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
― Snow
― Snow
“we are burning like a chicken wing left on the grill of an outdoor barbecue
we are unwanted and burning we are burning and unwanted
we are
an unwanted
burning
as we sizzle and fry
to the bone
the coals of Dante's 'Inferno' spit and sputter beneath
us
and
above the sky is an open hand
and
the words of wise men are useless
it's not a nice world, a nice world it's
not ...”
― You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
we are unwanted and burning we are burning and unwanted
we are
an unwanted
burning
as we sizzle and fry
to the bone
the coals of Dante's 'Inferno' spit and sputter beneath
us
and
above the sky is an open hand
and
the words of wise men are useless
it's not a nice world, a nice world it's
not ...”
― You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
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