I act because I have to, because I need to find out whether I can do it or not - that's what drives me and excites me and lights me up.
Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
I didn't know the names of the flowers - now my garden is gone.
one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment, that very area of personal self-recognition,(detailed individual is universal remember) which formal conventions, internalized, keep us from discovering in ourselves and others
Well, while I'm here I'll do the work — and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.
Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that.
Life consists only of moments, nothing more than that. So if you make the moment matter, it all matters
When you think of what you are, and despair; think also of what He is, and take heart.
Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode.
I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.