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Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too.
Dean Young -
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
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You want happy endings, read cookbooks.
Dean Young -
Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.
Dean Young -
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 -
Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.
Dean Young -
A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.
Dean Young -
There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.
Dean Young