Dean Young Quotes

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• but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing…
• A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.
• Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.
• There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.
• 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.
• You start with a darkness to move through but sometimes the darkness moves through you.
• 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…
• I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.
• 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…
• Hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height. Don't fall off a curb, fall off a cliff.

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