Dean Young Quotes

#1. When you look ito the still, deep water,
you can feel it looking back,
trying to come up with the proper punishment.
Fucking water, who made you the boss?

Dean Young

#2. Everyone says,
Come to your senses, and I do, of you.
Every touch electric, every taste you,
every smell, even burning sugar, every
cry and laugh. Toothpicked samples
at the farmers' market, every melon,
plum, I come undone, undone.

Dean Young

#3. I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel,
a 50-page description of you sleeping.

Dean Young

#4. You bend the nail
But keep hammering because
Hammering makes the world

Dean Young

#5. You want happy endings, read cookbooks.

Dean Young

#6. A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.

Dean Young

#7. Go down any road far enough
and you'll come to a slaughterhouse,
but keep going and you'll reach the sea.

Dean Young

#8. Here is a semi-transparent pebble I picked up on the way to my EKG. Probably worthless but it is my heart so take it.

Dean Young

#9. There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.

Dean Young

#10. Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.

Dean Young

#11. You are made of bent coat hangers, honey, gravel, epoxy and handstands. I am made of lying on the floor, the same song on repeat.

Dean Young

#12. You start with a darkness to move through
but sometimes the darkness moves through you.

Dean Young

#13. I don't believe in writer's block, writing well is very easy; it's writing horribly, the horrible work necessary to do to get to writing well, that is so difficult one may just not be willing to do it.

Dean Young

#14. Just because you've had enough
doesn't mean you wanted too much.

Dean Young

#15. Hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height. Don't fall off a curb, fall off a cliff.

Dean Young

#16. I still love the sound of breaking,
the tearing of the page

Dean Young

#17. On mornings when I hope you forget my name,
I walk through the high wet weeds
that don't have names either.
I do not remember the word dew.
I do not remember what I told you
with your ear in my teeth.

Dean Young

#18. Just because a thing can't be done doesn't mean it can't be did. We all look into mirrors and see phantoms. Our error is our Eros. Why is there something instead of nothing? The answer is reckless and surreal.

Dean Young

#19. But nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.

Dean Young

#20. Kissing a rose is a dumb thing to do
not just from the rose's point of view.
But it's a start
like driving off a cliff's probably a finish.
In beween you'll probably want to go to Mexico,
get so drunk you think what you're doing is a dance.

Dean Young