Aaron Weiss Quotes

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What in her do I require?
The face of gratified desire.

Aaron Weiss
Oh, rejoice, the Cleansing of my lips... rejoice, Salvation of my soul!
I still have a thousand half-loves... oh, my God!
I want to shoot myself just thinking about it!
And you think I don't mean what I say?

Aaron Weiss
And the snake who'd held the world, a stick, a carrot and string
Was crushed beneath the foot of Your not wanting anything.

Aaron Weiss
What unseen pen etched eternal things
on the hearts of human kind
but never let them in our minds?

Aaron Weiss
A speckled bird, humbly inspired,
Ran across the road when it could have flown,
And it made me smile.

Aaron Weiss
I wrote a little song for you
With a melody I'd borrowed put to words that didn't rhyme
To repeat what you already knew;
As the stones thrown at your window tapped in syncopation,
You kept a distance out of fear you'd break,
But what good's a single windchime, hanging quiet all alone?

Aaron Weiss
I'm not the boy that I once was, but I'm not the man I'll be.

Aaron Weiss
We've both been untrue but i'm still counting on you like an invisible rosary

Aaron Weiss
Stealing a bicycle chain as the handlebars crashed to the ground,
And the back wheel detached from the frame, it kept rolling, yeah,
But aimlessly drifting around.

Aaron Weiss
Shadow am I!
Like a suspicion that's never confirmed
But it's never denied!
Wolf am I...

Aaron Weiss
No more spider,
No more leaf,
No more me,
No more belief.

Aaron Weiss
Fortune Teller: Let's give up 'sacrifice' next Lent"
Rabbit: Eh, that joke's long since been spent!"

Aaron Weiss
The harder the rain, the lower the flowers in the garden bend:
I'd rather never talk again
Than to continue to pretend that this never ends.

Aaron Weiss
Put music to our troubles and we'll dance them away.

Aaron Weiss
If you look out and see a trace
Of dark red that used to be my face,
In the clarity of His grace:
Remember me.

Aaron Weiss
Why pluck one string when you can strum the guitar?

Aaron Weiss
Even the wind lay still,
Our essence was fire and cold and movement, movement...
Oh, if they ask you for the sign of the father in you,
Tell them it's movement, movement, movement and... repose.

Aaron Weiss
You strike the match... why not be utterly changed to fire?
To sacrifice the shadow and the mist of a brief life you never much liked?

Aaron Weiss
And all of what little joy in the world
Seemed suddenly simple and endlessly mine.

Aaron Weiss
A fish swims through the sea
While the sea is in a certain sense,
Contained within the fish!
Oh, what am I to think
Of what the writing of a thousand lifetimes
Could not explain
If all the forest trees were pens
And all the oceans - ink?

Aaron Weiss
You've got it all turned upside-down.
Does the rain that's sent each spring anew to fall on her not fall on you?
You project on her your inward scenes, she's a blank, external movie screen.
But the One who looks out from your eyes looks through hers and through mine.

Aaron Weiss
Elephant refused to swear the oath,
Said, "I don't know anything about truth,
but I know falsehood when I see it,
and it looks like this whole world you've made"

Aaron Weiss
One day the water's gonna wash it away
One day the water's gonna wash it away
One day the water's gonna wash it away
And on that day, nothing clever to say.

Aaron Weiss
I drank a thimble full of fire and I'm not ever coming back.

Aaron Weiss
Please, catch for us the foxes in the vineyard... the little foxes.

Aaron Weiss