James Wright
Suddenly I realize That if I stepped out of my body I would break Into blossom.Collection: Body
Poetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it.Collection: Long
It goes without saying that a fine short poem can have the resonance and depth of an entire novel.Collection: Depth
There is this cave In the air behind my body That nobody is going to touch: A cloister, a silence Closing around a blossom of fire. When I stand upright in the wind, My bones turn to dark emeralds.Collection: Dark
In a pine tree,/ A few yards from my window sill,/ A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and/ down./ On a branch./ I laugh, as I see him abandon himself/ To entire delight, for he knows as well as I do/ That the branch will not break.Collection: Blue
Practice good personal hygiene. Wash your hands before you eat. Be aware of good clean water and food sources.Collection: Hands
I close my eyes, and think of water.Collection: Eye
In life, you gotta do something. And the medical journals keep on saying if you've got a goal or some passion in life, you'll outlive all the other guys who - the bank manager that retired. They gave him a rocking chair and he rocked himself to death. So you gotta have a passion, whatever it happens to be. Whether it's this or something else, it doesn't matter, as long as it's a reason to get out of bed every morning, as my accountant of 50 years keeps on saying.Collection: Morning
Most of the pollution in the water already is dead animal and plant matter and building debris, ... good stagnant nursery for mosquitoes.Collection: Animal
I write abundantly. And then my next step is to struggle to reduce the ornament, to reduce the abundance-to prune the book, in other words, the way one prunes a tree-so it can grow. This is my idea of a book.Collection: Struggle
Look: I am nothing. I do not even have ashes to rub into my eyes.Collection: Eye
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, MinnesotaCollection: Lying
They can buy whatever brand they want. We will supply the finance.Collection: Want
I asked the Mesquite coach who he thought the best team in Mesquite is. He said they were about even.Collection: Team