Place Quotes

I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.

The job of the poet (a job which can’t be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.

When I lose my temper, honey, you can’t find it any place.

You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.

I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.

Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.

Keep doin’ what you’re doin’, fall in love with what you’re creating, and everything else will fall into place.

Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.

Christians are made, not born.