May Swenson Quotes

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It's done on a diamond, and for fun.
It's about home, and it's
about run.

May Swenson
Youth is given. One must put it away
like a doll in a closet,
take it out and play with it only
on holidays.

May Swenson
It is easy to be young. (Everybody is,
at first.) It is not easy
to be old. It takes time.
Youth is given; age is achieved.

May Swenson
The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and method, a sense of freedom and play, even trust in randomness, is necessary to the making of a poem.

May Swenson
Is there anything I can do
or has everything been done
or do
you prefer somebody else to do
it or don't
you trust me to do
it right or is it hopeless and no one can do
a thing or do
you suppose I don't
really want to do
it and am just saying that or don't
you hear me at all or what?

May Swenson
The summer that I was ten—
Can it be there was only one
summer that I was ten? It must
have been a long one then.

May Swenson
Body my house my horse my hound what will I do when you are fallen

May Swenson
My face
a negative in the slate window,
I sit in a lit
corridor that races through a dark
one.

May Swenson
Where can I go without my mount all eager and quick How will I know in thicket ahead is danger or treasure when Body my good bright dog is dead

May Swenson
Take earth for your own large room and the floor of earth carpeted with sunlight and hung round with silver wind for your dancing place.

May Swenson