Poetry Quote by Ocean Vuong — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“But why can't the language for creativity be the language of regeneration? You killed that poem, we say. You're a killer. You came into that novel guns blazing. I am hammering this paragraph, I am banging them out, we say. I owned that workshop. I shut it down. I crushed them. We smashed the competition. I'm wrestling with the muse. The state, where people live, is a battleground state. The audience a target audience. "Good for you, man" a man once said to me at a party, "you're making a killing with poetry. You're knockin' em dead.”

“If we ever make it to shore, he says, I will name our son after this water. I will learn to love a monster”

“A page, turning, is a wing lifted with no twin, and therefore no flight. And yet we are moved.”

“To be alive and try to be a decent person, and not turn into anything big or grand, that's the hardest thing of all. You think being president is hard? Ha. Don't you see that every president becomes a millionaire after he leaves office? If you can be nobody, and stand on your own two feet for as long as I have, that's enough. Look at my girl, all that talent and for what, just to drown in Bud Light?" [...] "People don't know what's enough, Labas. That's their problem. They think they suffer, but they're really just bored. They don't eat enough carrots.”

“What were you before you met me?”

“... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ...”

“Thinking of you is a poison I drink often.”

“Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving”

“For a star to be born, there is one thing that must happen: a gaseous nebula must collapse.”

“When Hitler marched”

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