The point of view of art and that of life are different even in the artist himself. Art flies around truth, but with the definite ...intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Goodbye, you who are, for me, the postmarks again... of shattered towns--Xenia, Burnt Cabins, Hornell-- their loneliness given away in poems, only their solitude kept.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When man has neither the strength to subdue his underworld powers--which are really the ancient powers of his old, superseded self...; nor the wit to placate them with sacrifice and the burnt holocaust; then they come back at him, and destroy him again. Hence every new conquest of life means a "harrowing of Hell."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man growing old is going down the dark stairs.... He has been speaking of the Soul tattooed with the Law. Of dreams burnt in the bone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake,... And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The heart forgets its sorrow and ache; The soul partakes the season's youth, And the sulphurous rifts of passion and woe Lie deep 'neath a silence pure and smooth, Like burnt-out craters healed with snow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And in a disused shed in Co. Wexford, Deep in the grounds of a burnt-out hotel,... Among the bathtubs and the washbasins A thousand mushrooms crowd to a keyhole.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?... Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.-- Her lips suck forth my soul; see where it flies!-- Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven be in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head--no intricate game o...f chess where few moves are made in straight-forwardness and ends are attained by indirection, an oblique, tedious, barren game hardly worth that poor candle burnt out in playing it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compar...ed with the pains of a man who has lived pretty long in the exhilarating world that drugs or strong waters seem to create and is trying to live now in the first bald desolation created by knocking them off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »