Quotes About Ambiguity

Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.

That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.

Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.

Poetry is the dark side of the moon.

The meaning of poetry has no sureness of direction; is like the sling, it is not under control.

At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings.

The works have to look like they're confident. But they also have to look sort of troubled. It's this weird thing: "Does that look confident and troubled?" It's a bit like difficult poetry.

Often when I write poetry I don't quite know what I'm saying myself. I mean, I can't restate the poem. The meaning of the poem is the poem.

He moves in darkness as it seems to meNot of woods only and the shade of trees.

Death defines life. I'd rather stay undefined.

How do you like your blue-eyed boy Mr Death?

This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment.

Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.

Politics is not an exact science.

The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.

A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.

In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.

It is hard to know what Sarah Palin means in Republican politics anymore.

Damned Neuters in their Middle way of Steering Are neither Fish nor Flesh nor good Red Herring.

The only thing certain is nothing is certain.

Only fools are positive.

I'm not a proper anything. Majoring in philosophy kind of turns positive assertions into maybes.