Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless set of variations... With basketball, you can correct your own mistakes, immediately and beautifully, in midair. — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
“Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless set of variations. It's like looking too closely and too long into a mirror; soon your features distort,… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
I love kids that come to shows, little kids coming up to you with braces; like, some kid came up to me in a… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
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… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
My voice has a quiver/ A quiver is where you keep arrows until you shoot them. — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
“Sex is no longer a beautiful thing", she said. "It has become an entirely separate entity from what was quaintly known as making love.… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
“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… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
I love this mansion, though it is too many windows ...to open halfway each morning ...to close halfway each night. — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
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… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
I once said a poet has the right to sing as loudly and vocally as he wants to. Most poets should face a rock… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
Billy was fascinated by the television. At its most basic level, it occupied his time and shut out the demons of isolation. This was… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
When I came back to New York, it was such a joke because I was always referred to as the pure young poet who… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
I do believe that a poet would possess a stronger intuitive sense of phrasing with a rock song. There is a way to tap… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
I should have stayed an athlete, body well-tuned, cruising around with my accountant in a Porsche, maroon and chrome. — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
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. — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
