Agha Shahid Ali
I want from love only the beginning. — Agha Shahid Ali, from “I want from love only the beginning,” Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems (W. W. Norton & Co., 2002)
Month: December 2016
Galway Kinnell
There is something joyous in the elegies Of birds. They seem Caught up in a formal delight, Though the mourning dove whistles of despair. — Galway Kinnell, from “Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock,” A New Selected Poetry (Mariner Books; Reprint edition September 13, 2001)
Shannon L. Alder
It is better to be alone than to become a person that loses his soul to the fear of loneliness. ― Shannon L. Alder
Shinji Moon
Do you remember how raw the night seemed when we cracked the moon over our teeth and let its yolk run down our throat? Salmonella or not, I loved you then. — Shinji Moon, from “Flash Flood,” The Anatomy of Being. (lulu.com; Second Edition edition April 6, 2013)
Kahlil Gibran
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. — Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet. (Rupa & Educa Books April 14, 2003) Originally published 1923.
Robert Bly
We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, The trees that are broken And start again, drawing up on great roots; — Robert Bly, from “A Home In Dark Grass,” Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems. (Harper & Collins, Nueva York 1999)
Suzy Kassem
A true poet writes from the language and experiences of their own heart, not those of others. ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem. (wakened Press; 1st edition, May 15, 2011
Cecilia Woloch
when I think of how you stand as if with nothing in your hands and I have nothing to offer you now save my own wild emptiness— — Cecilia Woloch, from “Grace,” Narcissus. (Tupelo Press May 1, 2008)
Ernest Hemingway
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. ― Ernest Hemingway
David Ignatow
I wish I understood the beauty in leaves falling. To whom are we beautiful as we go? — David Ignatow, from “Three in Transition,” Against The Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934 1994. (Wesleyan; 1st edition January 15, 1994)
The Vale of Soul-Making 