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

“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.”

“you can take this mouth”

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

“This week”

“Separation”

“Ah, when to the heart of man”

“Good poetry makes the universe reveal a secret.”

“Nobody the dead man & Nobody the living”

“I was not sorrowful, but only tired”

“We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us kinship where all is represented as separation.”