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"Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small Perfect Thing Which Will Live In Your Morning Like Curious Static Through A President's Elegy Or A Nude Hunchback Acquiring A Tan On The Crowded Oily Beach."
"It's you my love, you who are the stranger."
"You have money, fame, youth, beauty, talent. That's a good start... for feeling good."
"I am running through a snowfall which is her thighs, he dramatized in purple. Her thighs are filling up the street. Wide as a snowfall, heavy as huge falling Zeppelins, her damp thighs are settling on the sharp roofs and wooden balconies. Weather-vanes press the shape of roosters and sail-boats into the skin. The faces of famous statues are preserved like intaglios."
"...a young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity."
"In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress."
"I want to be paid for my work, not work for my pay."
"Please make me empty, if I'm empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I'm not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness."
"The troubles came and I saved what I could save. A thread of light, a particle, a wave."
"Pay attention to the cracks, because that's where the light gets in."
"Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing."
"Well I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one."
"When you've fallen on the highway / and you're lying in the rain, / and they ask you how you're doing / of course you'll say you can't complain."
"My friends are gone and my hair is grey. I ache in places I used to play. And I’m crazy for love but I’m not coming on. I’m just paying my rent every day in the tower of song."
"The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows."
"Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!"
"We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it."
"So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed, It would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed, It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star, I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far."
"And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either."
"Who could have foretold the heart grows old from touching others"