“Kissing a rose is a dumb thing to do not just from the rose's point of view. But it's a start like driving off a cliff's probably a finish. In beween you'll probably want to go to Mexico, get so… — Dean Young Copy Share Image
There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint. — Dean Young Copy Share Image
I don't believe in writer's block, writing well is very easy; it's writing horribly, the horrible work necessary to do to get to writing… — Dean Young Copy Share Image
“You bend the nail But keep hammering because Hammering makes the world” — Dean Young Copy Share Image
I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping. — Dean Young Copy Share Image
“Just because we have birds inside is, we don't have to be cages. -from Instant Recognition between Strangers” — Dean Young Copy Share Image
“Often beauty is disguised by appearance just as music can be by sound, the dreaming wish by the waking wish until there's this terrible stress because a thing must finally reveal itself, break itself. Leaning shadow, cinder heart, shouts. In Gorky's The Unattainable, the line begins to free itself from any utility of contour and becomes a trajectory. One day,… — Dean Young Copy Share
Here is a semi-transparent pebble I picked up on the way to my EKG. Probably worthless but it is my heart so take it. — Dean Young Copy Share Image
Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in the writing of poetry besides the aim to make a poem, of engaging the materials, SHOULD be disappointed. If the poet does not have the chutzpah to jeopardize habituated assumptions and practices, what will be produced will be… — Dean Young Copy Share
Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that… — Dean Young Copy Share
“Kissing a rose is a dumb thing to do not just from the rose's point of view. But it's a start like driving off… — Dean Young Copy Share Image
“When you look ito the still, deep water, you can feel it looking back, trying to come up with the proper punishment. Fucking water,… — Dean Young Copy Share Image
