Young
Young
moving life-is-hard darkness
You start with a darkness to move through but sometimes the darkness moves through you.
fall errors dumbasses
Hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height. Don't fall off a curb, fall off a cliff.
sea enough slaughterhouses
Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.
block believe writing
I don't believe in writer's block, writing well is very easy; it's writing horribly, the horrible work necessary to do to get to writing well, that is so difficult one may just not be willing to do it.
mean had-enough too-much
Just because you’ve had enough doesn’t mean you wanted too much.
spring feelings ordinary
There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.
iron odd platypus
A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.
oddities lobster looks
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 want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too.
class idiot poor
Everyone But an Idiot Knows That The Lower Classes Must Be Kept Poor, or They Will Never Be Industrious
science ifs
Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.
men understanding purpose
The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.
men garden rocks
Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
magic gold sand
The magic of property turns sand to gold.
sparks spirit manifestation
The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.