Astronomy Quote by Albert Goldbarth

I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or…

— Albert Goldbarth

“If your life depended on coming up with a tally, if you could straighten its numbers into a flexible line around the moon and…

— Albert Goldbarth

“... I slipped our wicker bed and walked the sands where we were also roughly repeated: some young couple, "you did," "I didn't," "you…

— Albert Goldbarth

“you don’t understand the protoknowledge we’re born with, coded into our cells: soon soon soon enough we die. Even before we’ve seen the breast,…

— Albert Goldbarth

I don't spend time thinking about an aesthetic out of which I create or an ideal toward which my body of work is heading.…

— Albert Goldbarth

“Talk to me. I'll believe anything.”

— Albert Goldbarth

“then "love," or "falling in love," an extra density textured into the weave of the days, a craziness, an orchidaceous interdimensional blossoming of the…

— Albert Goldbarth

Physics says: go to sleep. Of course you're tired. Every atom in you has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes nonstop from mitosis…

— Albert Goldbarth

“Physics says: go to sleep. Of course you’re tired. Every atom in you has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes nonstop from mitosis…

— Albert Goldbarth

If you agree with me that a poem can be as bountiful as a rich Victorian narrative, and as wise... then you'll want to…

— Albert Goldbarth

“How many hands were shook and names were signed and pipes were passed congenially in a circle, before the first of the used-car dealerships…

— Albert Goldbarth

Perhaps you have seen me. I know well, my purpose was merely that of a symbol, 'equals', 'times'... ; but what is said, for…

— Albert Goldbarth