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“Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.”

Thinking Kids Loneliness College Poet Walking Rain

Book:A fine and private place: The last unicorn

Source: A fine and private place: The last unicorn

“And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for. In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes Were you made ashamed, why'd you lock them in a drawer? Well, I don't think that I ever loved you more Well let the poets cry themselves to sleep And all their tearful words will turn back into steam The sound of loneliness makes me happier.”

Thinking Wells Made Turns Waiting Sound Sleep Loneliness Cry Poet Clothes Bird This Life Ashamed Yellow Locks Steam Drawers Polaroids

Author:Conor Oberst

“Goodbye, you who are, for me, the postmarks again of shattered towns--Xenia, Burnt Cabins, Hornell-- their loneliness given away in poems, only their solitude kept.”

War Poetry Given Loneliness Poet Solitude Destruction Towns Goodbye Shattered Cabins

Author:Galway Kinnell

“The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the poem already here, at its inception, in the encounter, in the mystery of encounter?”

Doe Facts Poetry Mystery Loneliness Poet Lonely Encounters Routes Inception

Book:Paul Celan: Selections

Source: Paul Celan: Selections