A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love. |
Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act. |
All the Men will be sailors then, untill the sea shall free them. |
Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. |
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. |
I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face. |
I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin. |
I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin. |
I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to my mind, a very gallant lady, victimized by whoever it is who designs the tops of her uniforms. |
I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before us, I know we are not new, in city and in forest they smiled like me and you, but now it's come to distances and both of us must try, your eyes are soft with sorrow, Hey, that's no way to say goodbye. |
I taught him how to dress. He taught me how to live forever. |
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress. |
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true. |
Natural Born Killers. |
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. |