Poetry Quote by Michael Ryan — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“You become a house where the wind blows straight through, because no one bothers the crack in the window or lock on the door, and you’re the house where people come and go as they please, because you’re simply too unimpressed to care. You let people in who you really shouldn’t let in, and you let them walk around for a while, use your bed and use your books, and await the day when they simply get bored and leave. You’re still not bothered, though you knew they shouldn’t have been let in in the first place, but still you just sit there, apathetic like a beggar in the desert.”

“Stars open among the lilies.”

“Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.”

“Landscape is my religion.”

“First, I thought, almost despairing,”

“The fury of confession, at first,”