Dean Young Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

Just because you’ve had enough doesn’t mean you wanted too much.

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

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

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

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

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

You want happy endings, read cookbooks.

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.

I still love the sound of breaking, the tearing of the page

You start with a darkness to move throughbut sometimes the darkness moves through you.

Just because we have birds inside is, we don't have to be cages.

Just because we have birds inside is, we don't have to be cages. -from Instant Recognition between Strangers

You bend the nailBut keep hammering becauseHammering makes the world

When you are 70% sure, act /because the other 30% is reserved for hope /which is doubt turned upside-down.