Villon our sad bad glad mad brother's name.

Hinged to forgetfulness like a door,she slowly closed out of sight,and she was the woman I loved,but too many times she — Richard Brautigan, Rommel Drives on Deep Into Egypt

Cheap little rhymesA cheap little tuneAre sometimes as dangerousAs a sliver of the moon. — Langston Hughes

I am—yet what I am none cares or knows; My friends forsake me like a memory lost: I am the self-consumer of my woes— The — John Clare, "I Am": The Selected Poetry of John Clare

A certain person wondered whya big strong girl like mewouldn't keep a jobwhich paid a normal salary.I took my time to le — Maya Angelou, I Shall Not Be Moved

It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road. — Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

You shall create beauty not to excite the sensesbut to give sustenance to the soul. — Gabriela Mistral

I believe in the flesh and the appetites; Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a mirac — Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

$You must burn. Burn higher. Burn for everything you have ever wanted. For everything you have ever lost, for every crack in your heart and every fraction of every irreplaceable moment. Burn high for l — Mia Hollow$

The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking — Marvin Bell, Mars Being Red

MISERABLERelease the toxic and infectious-Spreaders of misery,Souls destroying souls-And poisonous liars.Awaken from the — Giorge Leedy, Uninhibited From Lust To Love

Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified. — C.D. Wright, Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

Rocket shipsare excitingbut so are roseson a birthday. — Leonard Nimoy, Come Be With Me: A Collection of Poems

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