The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round, the sea is deep: Roll them overboard and sleep.
Poetry makes nothing happen.
Now the leaves are falling fast, Nurse’s flowers will not last, Nurses to their graves are gone, But the prams go rolling on.
A poet’s hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.
Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts.
Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason.
There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.
The friends who met here and embraced are gone, Each to his own mistake;.
The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.
Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there’s never smoke without fire.
Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Let me see what I wrote so I know what I think.
We were put on this earth to make things.
Drama is based on the Mistake.
Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read The hunter’s waking thoughts.
Like love we don’t know where or why Like love we cant compel or fly Like Love we often weep Like Love we seldom keep.
The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won’t be flowers.
Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.
Each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.
Time will say nothing but I told you so, Time only knows the price we have to pay; If I could tell you I would let you know.