Poetry Quote by Daphne Gottlieb — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“come back so i can say yes this time do it again now that i know what to call what you did”

“As she bends for a Kleenex in the dark, I am thinking of other girls: the girl I loved who fell in love with a lion--she lost her head over it--we just necked a lot; of the girl who fell in love with the tightrope, got addicted to getting high wired and nothing else was enough; all the beautiful, damaged women who have come through my life and I wonder what would have happened if I'd met them sooner, what they were like before they were so badly wounded. All this time I thought I'd been kissing, but maybe I'm always doing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, kissing dead girls in hopes that the heart will start again. Where there's breath, I've heard, there's hope.”

“This week”

“All the black leather”

“You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link.”

“Since the majority of me”

“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”

“all they want to do”

“Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children, the old send the young to die, because they have no imagination. They have power. Can you have power and imagination at the same time? Can you kill people you don’t know and have compassion for them at the same time?”

“America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.”