Poetry Quote by Tao Lin — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Death is the end of the fear of death. [...] To avoid it we must not stop fearing it and so life is fear. Death is time because time allows us to move toward death which we fear at all times when alive. We move around and that is fear. Movement through space requires time. Without death there is no movement through space and no life and no fear. To be aware of death is to be alive is to fear is to move around in space and time toward death.”

“When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at night are made for mediocre minds – like those horses that are equally good for saddle and carriage, the worst kind, that can neither jump a ditch nor pull a plow.”

“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”

“A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.”

“How weightless”

“Must beauty blossom, rooted in decay,”

“some see things as they are: others as they are” (p.82) ~CXCI”