5 Quotes by Jim Carroll about poetry




  • Author Jim Carroll
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    I wait on the origin of night's sounds waking. I knowthat here only the blind man sings, even in rainThe notes of drenched violins rise like warped mirrors'and the last clouds part slowly, like a cracked wheel.

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  • Author Jim Carroll
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    Whiteness is the color of death, you know, not black. Wetness is life, the breeder and shaper of life. In the beginning the sun was black. So all light was absorbed before it had a chance to return. And our dreams, then, were empty.

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