Jeffrey McDaniel citations

“I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.”

“There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.”

“I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your hips. My fingers will dig in you like quotation marks, blazing your limbs into parts of speech.”

“I've been ignored by prettier women than you,
but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silence
so far, without spilling a drop.”

“Once I thought I found love, but then I realized I was just out
of cigarettes.”

“I've had the wind knocked out of me, but never the hurricane”

“I know
it’s stupid to not own a gun yet have

so many triggers, but in some other world
gigantic seashells hold humans

to their ears and listen to the echo
of machines.”

“I swallowed a hand grenade that never stops exploding.”

“No rescue boat can save the touches I left bobbing in the wild ocean of your flesh, but if they cut open your heart, like the belly of a shark, dumped its contents on a table—would there be any trace of me?”

“I want to rip off your logic
and make passionate sense to you.”