Dorothea Lasky > Quotes

“I reached deep in you and pulled out a cardinal which in bright red flew out the window. ”
― Dorothea Lasky, Awe

“When people talk about poetry as a project, they suggest that the road through a poem is a single line. When really the road through a poem is a series of lines, like a constellation, all interconnected. Poems take place in the realm of chance, where the self and the universal combine, where life exist. I can’t suggest to you that going through a line that is more like a constellation than a road is easy—or that the blurring of the self and the universal doesn’t shred a poet a little bit in the process. The terrain of a poem is unmapped (including the shapes of the trees along the constellation-road). A great poet knows never to expect sun or rain or cold or wind in the process of creating a poem. In a great poem all can come to the fore at once. It would be worse yet, if none are there at all.”
― Dorothea Lasky

“I never noticed anything but you
But you but you
So that I couldn't sleep”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“There are things you want to say but don't
There are things I want to say but I already said them
A year ago or two or five, when we first met
There were times I thought you knew I loved you
You never knew
We never were
I died
You died
That's it”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“A monster
Someone who left me in the dark
Someone who darkened me
A million times over”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“And I go looking looking for you in the streets
And I never find you
I never find you at all”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“I watch porn
Cause I'll never be in love”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“And forgot about me
You forgot about me

And what I meant to you
And then it was over”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“Not sure what of this you did offer me
Never did amount to anything
So with this
I go”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“It is as if I had made you believe
In me once again
It is as if you knew I was your true love
It was as if I didn't have to know

In this life
All you were to me
Was that flower”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“What's worse
To never have them
To have them only in part
What's worse
To be endlessly waiting
To be endlessly waiting
What's worse—nothing or nothing
What's worse”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“I want you to kiss me hard hard
In the nighttime
And not give up
I don’t want to be a thing
I want to be becoming”
― dorothea lasky, Rome: Poems

“I wrapped myself in leaden sheets
And sank deep into my own infernal ocean”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“You were
Something or someone I loved
But I am a traveler
And I love no one
But the empty road”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“To get rejected so vehemently
Over and over again
Until some said it was the rejection I was after
No it wasn't
I wanted the intensity that you sometimes promised”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“In every scene I am waiting for you
To be with me in dreams”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“But death is the ultimate blissfulness
To be a candy or a corpse
The world holds you on its tongue
And no one can save you”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“You will realize you love me
But it will be too late

You will cry out for me
I will be long gone

This is not a wish
But what I knew to be so”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“And I am so alone
And I am alone here
With the idea of ghosts
And the idea of humanity, which is a cruel idea”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“You know, I loved you
I loved you
I was wrong”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“The sugar the ice on planets and stars
The romance of the evening
Coated in ice from your dead flesh
Already rotting from within”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“You are the kind of thing who takes from me
And never gives anything away

And when you call to me with your synchronicity
I can't help but run to you

You my horrible star
I can't help but run to you when you call for me”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“The blue night with trees
Everything told me to feel something

And yet everything you said was a lie
And all my emotions were for nothing”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“I will go back and forth and never be”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“There were things I wished I'd said
And done
But it is too late now
So I go
Heavy with my offering
This book, this book”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“I never knew what feeling was
I only felt the pain”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“Why am I tired of the Internet
I have no friends here
I write down words in my room
For a thousand hours and no likes

So, instead of the Internet I will make a little shop
In an art gallery and tell no one
In my dirty leopard coat it will be 1992 forever
Burned out hamburger sign in the foreseeable distance”
― Dorothea Lasky

“There was a lonely summer

Where I took the string and unraveled the magic circle from everything

It was because of you, and what you did to me”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“…his voice is a midnight I’d like to walk into forever.”
― Dorothea Lasky, Black Life

“I've only fucked seven guys in my whole life
But I've watched more porn than you ever will
Hours and hours”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems