Blue Quote by Linda Pastan

I regret the way pain has taught me nothing.

— Linda Pastan

Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut.

— Linda Pastan

“Despite the enormous evening sky spreading over most of the canvas, its moon no more than a tarnished coin, dull and flat, in a…

— Linda Pastan

Evil is simply a grammatical error: a failure to leap the precipice between "he" and "I.

— Linda Pastan

What we want is never simple.

— Linda Pastan

I am tired of the litany of months, September October I am tired of the way the seasons keep changing, mimicking the seasons of…

— Linda Pastan

Spring is the shortest season.

— Linda Pastan

I made a list of things I have to remember and a list of things I want to forget, but I see they are…

— Linda Pastan

“I'm only leaving you for a handful of days, but it feels as though I'll be gone forever—- the way the door closes behind…

— Linda Pastan

What we want is never simple. We move among the things we thought we wanted: a face, a room, an open book and these…

— Linda Pastan

I have dreamed of our bed as if it were a shore where we would be washed up, not this striped mattress we must…

— Linda Pastan

Grief is a circular staircase.

— Linda Pastan