"Here, when I say I never want to be without you, somewhere else I am saying I never want to be without you again. And when I touch you in each of the places we meet, in all of the lives we are, it's with hands that are dying and resurrected. When I don't touch you it's a mistake in any life, in each place and forever"

--

Source : Bob Hicok (1998). “Plus Shipping: Poems”, Boa Editions

Bob Hicok

#Mistake Quotes #Hands Quotes #Forever Quotes

“I can perform the life of the snail and be moving.”
“But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive.”
“Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in.”
“Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?”
“This the American Black man knows: his fight is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or he wins. He will enter modern civilization in America as a Black man on terms of perfect and unlimited equality with any white man, or he will enter not at all. Either extermination root and branch or absolute equality. There can be no compromise. This is the last great battle of the west.”
“The path of least resistance will never make you proud.”
“Most people do not go to the dentist until they have a toothache; most societies do not reform abuses until the victims begin to make life uncomfortable for others.”

Source : Charles Philip Issawi (1991). “Issawi's laws of social motion”, Darwin Pr
“How easy it must be when you had no secrets from the person you lived with." - Eclipse, page 208”

You may also like: