--- title: "1 Poet Comes Quotes By jim carroll" description: "1 Poet Comes quotes by jim carroll. Plus more from jim carroll and more Poet Comes sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e8/jim-carroll-15270_joke_when-i-came-back-to-new-york-it-was-such_795940.png" --- > [When I came back to New York, it was such a joke because I was always referred to as the pure young poet who wasn't in it for what he could get out of it. And all of a sudden,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-carroll/when-i-came-back-to-new-york-it-was-such-a-joke-because-i-was-always/) [Jim Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-carroll/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e8/jim-carroll-15270_joke_when-i-came-back-to-new-york-it-was-such_795940.png) ## More by jim carroll > [“they're fucking up minds they do not own.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-carroll/they-re-fucking-up-minds-they-do-not-own/) [jim carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-carroll/) > [Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-carroll/conscience-is-no-more-than-the-dead-speaking-to-us/) [Jim Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-carroll/) > [I love kids that come to shows, little kids coming up to you with braces; like, some kid came up to me in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-carroll/i-love-kids-that-come-to-shows-little-kids-coming-up-to-you-with/) [Jim Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-carroll/) > [I need a consistency of my moods if there is to be any consistency in my style. I can't attempt to write always in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-carroll/i-need-a-consistency-of-my-moods-if-there-is-to-be-any-consistency-in/) [Jim Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-carroll/) > [My voice has a quiver/ A quiver is where you keep arrows until you shoot them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-carroll/my-voice-has-a-quiver-a-quiver-is-where-you-keep-arrows-until-you/) [Jim Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-carroll/) > [“Sex is no longer a beautiful thing", she said. "It has become an entirely separate entity from what was quaintly known as making love.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-carroll/sex-is-no-longer-a-beautiful-thing-she-said-it-has-become-an-entirely/) [Jim Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-carroll/) > [“It’s all as if words, phrases, images, syntax were small glass beads from a necklace which was wrenched from some neck and spilled on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-carroll/it-s-all-as-if-words-phrases-images-syntax-were-small-glass-beads/) [Jim Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-carroll/) > [I love this mansion, though it is too many windows ...to open halfway each morning ...to close halfway each night.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-carroll/i-love-this-mansion-though-it-is-too-many-windows-to-open-halfway/) [Jim Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-carroll/) > [It's easy to get by on a facade of fancy style, but sooner or later, people are going to see through it. I'm trying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-carroll/it-s-easy-to-get-by-on-a-facade-of-fancy-style-but-sooner-or-later/) [Jim Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-carroll/) > [I once said a poet has the right to sing as loudly and vocally as he wants to. Most poets should face a rock…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-carroll/i-once-said-a-poet-has-the-right-to-sing-as-loudly-and-vocally-as-he/) [Jim Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-carroll/) > [Billy was fascinated by the television. At its most basic level, it occupied his time and shut out the demons of isolation. This was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-carroll/billy-was-fascinated-by-the-television-at-its-most-basic-level-it/) [Jim Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-carroll/) > [When I came back to New York, it was such a joke because I was always referred to as the pure young poet who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-carroll/when-i-came-back-to-new-york-it-was-such-a-joke-because-i-was-always/) [Jim Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-carroll/) > [I do believe that a poet would possess a stronger intuitive sense of phrasing with a rock song. There is a way to tap…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-carroll/i-do-believe-that-a-poet-would-possess-a-stronger-intuitive-sense-of/) [Jim Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-carroll/) > [I should have stayed an athlete, body well-tuned, cruising around with my accountant in a Porsche, maroon and chrome.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-carroll/i-should-have-stayed-an-athlete-body-well-tuned-cruising-around-with/) [Jim Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-carroll/) > [I was always the young guy. And when you're successful when you're young, it leads to an arrested adolescence or something, y'know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-carroll/i-was-always-the-young-guy-and-when-you-re-successful-when-you-re/) [Jim Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-carroll/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poet-comes/jim-carroll/#itemlist", "name": "1 Poet Comes Quotes By jim carroll", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When I came back to New York, it was such a joke because I was always referred to as the pure young poet who wasn't in it for what he could get out of it. 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