Quotes from Lenore Kandel

Poetry is alive because it is a medium of vision and experience. It is not necessarily comfortable.It is not necessarily safe.

…love is by definition freeand if he choose to gowhen I would have him stayperhaps I'll die a bitbut I'd rather sothan taste his absent minded kissand lie uneasy in a masked embrace

Bedtime is daytime, and we come into bloom after midnight.

love is by definition free and if he choose to go when I would have him stay perhaps I'll die a bit but I'd rather so than taste his absent minded kiss and lie uneasy in a masked embrace

love grown dutiful is love grown old a withered cupid faltering at the bow…

Poetry is alive because it is a medium of vision and experience. It is not necessarily comfortable. It is not necessarily safe.

Like seasonless fowl we migrate… from East Coast to West Coast and back and forth again, for a job, for a friend, for a change, for a kick.

Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually destroy the poet.

There are no barriers to poetry or prophecy; by their nature they are barrier-breakers, bursts of perceptions, lines into infinity. If the poet lies about his vision he lies about himself and in himself; this produces a true barrier.

Whatever is language is poetic language and if the word required by the poet does not exist in his known language then it is up to him to discover it.

there are no ways of love but beautiful I love you all of them

Expose yourself! Show me your tattooed spine and star-encrusted tongue! Admit your feral snarl, your bloody jaws concede your nature and reveal your dreams! each beast contains its god, all gods are dreams all dreams are true — Lenore Kandel, from "Freak Show and Finale," Collected Poems of Lenore Kandel . (North