Do not go gentle into that good night.
Call me Dolores. Like they do in the stories.
An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.
A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone’s knowledge of himself and the world around him.
My birthday began with the water – Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name.
Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart; Push in their tides.
Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.
I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they’ve ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn’t know, because I won’t ever dare ask that question.
Come on up, boys -I’m dead.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
I hold a beast, an angel and a madman within me.
Love is the last light spoken.
Though they go mad they shall be sane, though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; though lovers be lost love shall not; and death shall have no dominion.
I said some words to the close and holy darkness and then I slept.
I think, that if I touched the earth, It would crumble; It is so sad and beautiful, So tremulously like a dream.
Join the army and see the next world.
Oh, I’m a martyr to music.
It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.
I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.
When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.