Poetry Quote by Raymond Carver — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Don’t complain, don’t explain.”

“At least”

“It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.”

“I am not yours, not lost in you,”

“Poets, like fighters, both reap the benefits of roadwork.”

“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered.”

“This is joy's bonfire, then, where love's strong arts”

“For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children”

“You are that one breath. that puts all the remaining breaths. back into my body.”