Occupation: Poet Birth: August 16, 1920 Death: March 9, 1994
I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely..
and the color in my eyes has gone back into the sea..
we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure..
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics..
The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a li….
The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the….
What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman..
Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else..
There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken..
I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell..
People don't do me much good..
That's the way it ends. The thin edge of the wedge..
I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love..
Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone..
I always started a job with the feeling that I'd soon quit or be fired, and this gave ma a relaxex manner that was mistaken for intelligence or some ….
Before my death I hope to obtain my life..
there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails..
I'm only interested in poetry..
the history of melancholia includes all of us..
nobody ever finds the one.
I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me..