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“I am tired of pursuing happiness. I want to breathe it in as ubiquitous as air.”

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“Fog borne of fatigue, fog of early morning, of restless middle-years sleeplessness, fog of cat hair in my eye, of dog, dogs, fog of darkness, fog of dreary days under a pseudo-autocracy, funk fog of high crimes and misdemeanors, fog of my daily compulsion toward work I do not want to do.”

Poetry Poem Fog Sleeplessness

Book:Worldly Things

Source: Worldly Things

“In America there’s one winning story—no adaptations. The Story imagines a noble, grand progress where we’re all united. Like truths are as self-evident as the Declaration states. Or like they would be if not for detractors like me, the ranks of Vagabonds existing to point out what’s rotten in America, Insisting her gains come at a cost, reminding her who pays, and Negating wild notions of exceptionalism—adding ugly facts to God’s-favorite-nation mythology.”

America Poetry Poem Racism Constitution African Americans Declaration Of Independence

Book:Worldly Things

Source: Worldly Things

“My grandfather's name was Arthur, and he talked all the time about his arthritis but pronounced it autha-itis, so for months I thought it was a condition unique to him, that he had his own special burden, just like my brother and me.”

Poetry Poem Aging Burdens Arthritis Grandfathers

Book:Worldly Things

Source: Worldly Things

“Here's the deal: structural fatigue eventually causes breakdowns. I am 50 and chaos. My whole body groans.”

Poetry Poem Aging Middle Age 50 Aches Breakdowns Structural Fatigue

Book:Worldly Things

Source: Worldly Things

“Our biggest fear is never to find out that we don't know how to find ourselves.”

Inspirational Life Lessons Fear Poem

Book:The Lacetier

Source: The Lacetier

“I bought plum blossoms more for the name than for the color; I buy lipstick that way, too. In other words, if it sounds like a poem, I'll take it.”

Poetry Color Poem Lipstick Plum Blossoms

Author:Dorothea Grossman

“Cauldron save you. Mother hold you. Pass through the gates, and smell that immortal land of milk and honey. Fear no evil. Feel no pain. Go, and enter eternity.”

Death Eternity Afterlife

Book:A Court of Thorns and Roses

Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses

“To the terror of the lone lake. Yet that terror was not fright, But a tremulous delight-- A feeling not the jewelled mine Could teach or bribe me to define-- Nor Love-- although the Love were thine.”

Book:The Lake

Source: The Lake

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, 25 Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?" This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore:" Merely this and nothing more.”

Love Poem Literature Quotes Yalnızlık Lonelinessquotes

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“And Paris! All afternoon in someone's attic We raised our glasses And drank to the asses Who ran the world and turned neurotic.”

Poetry Powerful Poem World Leaders Neuroticism

Author:Galway Kinnell