Share this page: We must travel in the direction of our fear. -- 'A Point of Age' (1942) The moon came up late and the night was cold, Many men died -- although we know the fate Of none, not of anyone, and the war Goes on, and the moon in the breast of man is cold. -- 'The Moon and the Night and the Men' (1948) Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. (...) And moreover my mother taught me as a boy (repeatingly) 'Ever to confess you're bored means you have no Inner Resources.' I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. -- 'Dream Song No. 14 (1964) I seldom go to films. They are too exciting, said the Honorable Possum. -- 'Dream Song No. 53 (1964) Bats have no bankers and they do not drink And cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made. -- 'Dream Song No. 63' (1964) A lone letter from a young man: that is fame. -- 'Dream Song No. 342' (1964) Fan mail from foreign countries, is that fame? -- The Dream Songs (1968) Filling her compact and delicious body with chicken paprika, she glanced at me twice. -- The Dream Songs (1968) My girls suffered during this month or so, so did my seminars & lectures & my poetry even. To be a critic, ah how deeper and more scientific. -- 'Olympus' (1971) He crusht a cigarette out. Crusht him out Surprising God, at last, in a wink of time. His soul was forwarded. Adressat unbekannt. -- 'Henry's Fate' (1977) Share this page:

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