From the beginning, man could look up at a vast universe dotted by innumerable stars to find every evidence that he was nothing. This evidence has only grown stronger as science and technology record an expanse of galaxies filled with planetary solar...
I am a black bird, a Raven, I am Raven. I know and I am knowing—I know and see life and death, expansion and contraction and I do not shiver and cry—I am unafraid. I am Raven. I am black as liquid night with wings and my eyes are stars to see by....
I am in the night of the stars. The moon is new and I see my way by focusing on the light given off by the Souls of the trees. The night air is thick and dark and sweet, like blueberries. It enters my nose and throat and ears to fill me up with its n...
I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture those experiences. Like vivid, rainbow metallic skin cells on the wings of a fragile butterfly, it is how you touch and reveal those i...
If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris lately? But if I had never read Jack Kerouac's horrendous poems, I never would have had the guts to write horrend...
However, he wrote some verses on her, and very pretty they were.” “And so ended his affection,” said Elizabeth impatiently. “There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in...
Only with a leaf can I talk of the forest,
My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.
Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.
Can you look at this brilliant wound?
Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert.
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.
