Quotes About Reflection

and I was a really fat kid, and that's why I do this to myself.

I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and … in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can count entirely as much as the living.

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.

The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from "Transcendental Etude

What kind of beast would turn its life into words?

You touched me in places so deep I wanted to ignore you.

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.

this is where I live now. If you had known me once, you'd still know me now though in a different light and life. This is no place you ever knew me.

Poetry is, among other things, a criticism of language.

I know you are reading this poem in a room where too much has happened for you to bear where the bedclothes lie in stagnant coils on the bed and the open valise speaks of flight but you cannot leave yet.

in every room, the furniture reflects you larger than life, or dwindling

Only to have a grief equal to all these tears! There's not a sob in my chest. Dry hearted Peer Gynt I pare away, no hero, merely a cook.

If I'm lonely it's with the rowboat ice-fast on the shore in the last red light of the year that knows what it is, that knows it's neither ice nor mud nor winter light but wood, with a gift for burning

You are every woman I ever loved and disavowed.

The dead" we say   as if speaking of "the people" who gave up on making history simply to get through Something dense and null   groan without echo   underground and owl-voiced I cry Who are these dead people these lovers who if ever did listen no longer answer : We :

Can you remember? When we thought the poets taught how to live?

I have to learn alone to turn my body without force in the deep element.

Marriage is lonelier than solitude

We murmur moonwords.

Probably fishing is my first passion.

Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios.

I'm not a huge fan of the concept of 'passion' when it comes to careers. Instead of trying to answer the daunting question of, 'What's your passion?' it's better simply to watch what you do when you've got time of your own and nobody's looking.