7 Quotes by Kaveh Akbar

I'm becoming more a vessel of memories than a person it's a myth /that love lives in the heart it lives in the throat we push it out /when we speak when we gasp we take a little for ourselves / in books love can be war-ending a soldier drops his sword / to lie forking oysters into his enemy's mouth in life we hold love up to the light /to marvel at its impotence

...sohow shall I live nowin the unexpected presentI spent so long in a lover'squarrel with my fleshthe peace seems over-cautious too-polite

Is there a vocabulary for this – one to make dailiness amplify and not diminish wonder?

All I want is to finally take off my cowboy hat and show you my jeweled horns. If we slow dance I will ask you not to tug on them but secretly I will want that very much.

Poetry very literally, unhyperbolically saved my life... I think it’s an honor to get to spend my life in service to the thing I love best.“- Kaveh Akbar.

I’ve given this coldness many names thinking if it had a name it would have a solution thinking if I called a wolf a wolf I might dull its fangs I carried the coldness like a diamond for years holding it close near as blood until one day I woke and it was fully inside me both of us ruined and unrecognizable two coins on a train track the train crushed into one.

I lack nothing I need unless you count everything I want.