Come, Thief: Poems
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“Whatever handcuffs the soul, I have brought here.”
Source: Ledger: Poems
Source: The Asking: New and Selected Poems
Source: Given Sugar, Given Salt
Source: Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry
Source: The lives of the heart
“Here is a soul, accepting nothing.”
Source: Given Sugar, Given Salt
“In a room with many windows some thoughts slide past uncatchable, ghostly.”
Source: The Beauty
“As water given sugar sweetens, given salt grows salty, we become our choices.”
Source: Given Sugar, Given Salt
Source: The Asking: New and Selected Poems
Source: Ledger: Poems
“So few the grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance.”
“Leave a door open long enough, a cat will enter. Leave food, it will stay.”
Source: Of Gravity & Angels
“Near even a candle, the visible heat. So it is with a person in love.”
Source: Come, Thief: Poems
“The moonlight builds its cold chapel again out of piecemeal darkness.”
Source: Come, Thief: Poems
“Every morning is new as the last one, uncreased as the not quite imaginable first.”
Source: Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World
Source: Of Gravity & Angels
Source: Of Gravity & Angels
“The untranslatable thought must be the most precise.”
Source: After: Poems
Source: Come, Thief: Poems
“Words are not the end of thought, they are where it begins.”
Source: After: Poems
“Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.”
“A person is full of sorrow the way a burlap sack is full of stones or sand.”