They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked higher than the pyramids; they had killed themselves over the failure to find...
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Jeffrey Eugenides
The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.
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Neil Gaiman
If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and make it the object of our game;...
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Milan Kundera
When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.
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Catherynne M. Valente
I have fallen in love with the world And I am aware that I have chosenthe most dangerous lover of them all.
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Rod McKuen
More Quotes By Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace'One grand boulevard with treeswith one grand cafe in sunwith strong black coffee in very small cups. One not necessarily very beautifulman or woman who loves you. One fine day.
I am awaitingperpetually and forevera renaissance of wonder
Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.
Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.
Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.
