Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.
America i've given you all and now i'm nothing.
I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.
I wanted for the moments in my life to follow each other and order themselves like those of a life remembered. It would be just as well to try to catch time by the tail.
One miserable thought, then, suffices to sap a man's will and render him feeble-minded.
Mine are garbled thoughts, sometimes clear, sometimes ambiguous, depending on the moods of my I spirit.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.