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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.

Games are nature's most beautiful creation

Then I start to struggle
With a feeble song
Which will overcome me
Many miles from home

I didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i was passing through

Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention.

Silence And a deeper silence When the crickets Hesitate

we met when we were almost young

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

Ou wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned.

And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.

We sold ourselves for love but now we are free
I'm so sorry for that ghost I made you be
Only one of us was real and that was me

Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique.

Like a bird on a wire,
like a drunk in a midnight choir,
I have tried in my way to be free!!

As the mist leaves no scar
On the dark green hill
So my body leaves no scar
On you and never will

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm

The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.

I have often prayed for you like this Let me have her

There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.

There's no forsaking what you love
no existential leap
as witnessed here in time and blood
a thousand kisses deep

I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against.

It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.

Shouldering your loneliness like a gun that you will not learn to aim, you stumble into this movie house then you climb, you climb into the frame.

The silver knives are flashing in that tired old cafe ...

In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.

I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.

And summoned now
to deal with your invincible defeat
You live your life
As if it's real

I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts

When you've fallen on the highway / and you're lying in the rain, / and they ask you how you're doing / of course you'll say you can't complain ...

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

Rust rust rust in the engines of love and time

My page was too white
My ink was too thin
The day wouldn't write
What the night pencilled in

We do what only lovers can: make a gift out of necessity.

I've seen the future and it's murder.

Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.

May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.

English, I know you ... you are German with a license to kill.

All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.

Music is the emotional life of the most people.

Everybody knows the dice are loaded.

And here you are hurried, And here you are gone; And here is the love, That it's all built upon.

Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.

I followed the course
From chaos to art
Desire the horse
Depression the cart

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

I'm neither left or right. I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen.

Never make a decision when you need to pee.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

When passion dies
friendship hovers round our flesh like flies

We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.

Everything has a crack in it; that's how the light gets in.

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.

There's a blaze of light in every word. It doesn't matter which you heard. The holy or the broken hallelujah.

The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come.

It's four in the morning, the end of december
I'm writing you now just to see if you're better.

The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows.

When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do.

No one masters the heart.

I don't want to be a star, merely dying.

even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.

They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom ... for trying to change the system from within

Do not be a magician - be magic!

I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes.

Maybe there's a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you.

His vision was just outstanding. If you think of him in the same way as Pele then you would come close.

The birds they sangat the break of day.Start again!!I heard them say

The moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with a mighty expectation of relief.

I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.

If I spelled out the Principles of Faith
I would be barking on the moon.

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

Pay attention to the cracks, because that's where the light gets in.

There is a crack in everything

The Remote
I often think about you
when I'm lying alone in
my room with my mouth
open and the remote
lost somewhere in the bed.

I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.

The most precious secret has been leaked:
There is no Opposition!

I told the truth, I didn't come to fool you

I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.

Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession.

I ache in the places where I used to play...

Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone.

To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.

I'm blackening pages, but I don't know if it's writing.

I'm planning a catastrophe.

If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.

Do not believe the truth. The truth is tiny compared to what you have to do.

Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.

This mental space is occupied and everything is mine.

We've got to learn to love appearances.

Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
Then let's be quiet together.

Dear friend, I have searched all night
through each burnt paper,
but I fear I will never find
the formula to let you die

it's closing time

It's you my love, you who are the stranger.

I don't remember
lighting this cigarette
and I don't remember
if I'm here alone
or waiting for someone.

Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!

To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle's shoulder.

No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed.

I have tried in my way to be free.

Everytime you grab at love you will lose a snowflake of your memory