Doveglion Quotes

“I shall talk to you through trees, through the arms of dancers, through sweet words uttered by many lovers.

The arms of dancers round you shall be my arms.

The eyes of men admiring you shall be my eyes.

I have many arms, many eyes.

It is that, loving you, I have become many lovers.”
― Jose Garcia Villa, Doveglion: Collected Poems

“I,it,was,that,saw,
God,dancing,on,phosphorescent,toes,
Among,the,strawberries.

It,could,have,been,moonlight,or,
Daylight—or,no,light,at,all.
His,feet,cast,light,on,all.

On,phosphorescent,feet,
On,phosphorescent,feet,He,danced,
And,His,eyes,were,closed:

He,made,the,strawberries,tremble!
Yet,He,hurt,not,the,little,one,
But,gave,them,ripeness,all.”
― Jose Garcia Villa, Doveglion: Collected Poems

“A poem
is
language
built

to the
struc-
ture of a
flower.”
― Jose Garcia Villa, Doveglion: Collected Poems

“Between one and one
Between integer and integer
Is itself’s nothing
The abstract zero.

Between I and I
Between self and self
Is itself’s everything
The abstract Hero

That self may equate to
Or keep ever as two.”
― Jose Garcia Villa, Doveglion: Collected Poems

“First, a poem must be magical,
then musical as a sea-gull.”
― Jose Garcia Villa, Doveglion: Collected Poems

“Not,speech,that,has,fire,
But,Fire,that,can,speak—
Genius.”
― Jose Garcia Villa, Doveglion: Collected Poems

“Art is a miraculous flirtation with Nothing!
Aiming for nothing, and landing on the Sun.”
― Jose Garcia Villa, Doveglion: Collected Poems

“Nevermore to delay life
End the beginning
Devise the bravest perpendicular
To the squarest circle.

Assume the ending.
If He lies broken who broke Him?
Assume your innocence!

If you are broken who broke you?
Assume His innocence!

The perpendicular of heaven and death!
Now the wounded may rest.
If He—on your breast.

If you—on His brest.
Rest, rest.”
― Jose Garcia Villa, Doveglion: Collected Poems

“I,astonish,Death,with,my,largesse.
She,becomes,a,silly,maid,
Saying, “Never,mind. Never,mind.”
― Jose Garcia Villa, Doveglion: Collected Poems

“The,pages,of,a,mirror,
Are,translucent.”
― Jose Garcia Villa, Doveglion: Collected Poems

“Where are there square bubbles?”
― Jose Garcia Villa, Doveglion: Collected Poems

“Sir, there’s a tower of fire in me
Binding me with terrible strength
The whole of my mortal length
And splitting brave the skull’s empery
In a rush of dauntless energy
To reach the most luminous ether
I am the mortal grounding of a tower
Imminent with immortality.”
― Jose Garcia Villa, Doveglion: Collected Poems

“Be beautiful, noble, like the antique ant,
Who bore the storms as he bore the sun,
Wearing neither gown nor helmet,
Though he was archbishop and soldier:
Wore only his own flesh.

...

Trace the tracelessness of the ant,
Every ant has reached this perfection.
As he comes, so he goes,
Flowing as water flows,
Essential but secret like a rose.”
― Jose Garcia Villa, Doveglion: Collected Poems

“When,Nothing,is,so,well,said,
Or,so,well,done,

It,betrays,itself,and,becomes,
Something:

As,apples,by,Cézanne,or,just,
Lines,by,Modrian.”
― Jose Garcia Villa, Doveglion: Collected Poems

“If,wisdom,can,not,count,
The,petals,of,a,snake,
Yet,wisdom,can,
Its,backbone,break.”
― Jose Garcia Villa, Doveglion: Collected Poems

“Fade,out,fade,out,
Pale,spermless,God:
Arise,fire-testicled,God.”
― Jose Garcia Villa, Doveglion: Collected Poems

“At,twelve,o’clock,the,poet,is,sad.
At,thirteen,o’clock,the,world,goes,mad.
At,mad,o’clock,the,hero’s,blood.
At,blood,o’clock,the,shining,truth.
At,truth,o’clock,the,Timeless,Head.”
― Jose Garcia Villa, Doveglion: Collected Poems

“The,purpose,of,a,match?”
“To,start,a,fire,with.”
No.
“To,store,up,fire,
And,to,keep,it,cool.”
― Jose Garcia Villa, Doveglion: Collected Poems

“A matter of physics—Length and Tension—How does the performer make it sing above the laws of sound?”
― Jose Garcia Villa, Doveglion: Collected Poems

“Have I sung?
Have I become soft, beautiful?”
― Jose Garcia Villa, Doveglion: Collected Poems

“Skies,are,written,
Because,skies,are,born.”
― Jose Garcia Villa, Doveglion: Collected Poems

“A,bee,flying,to,the,end,of,the,world,
To,find,one,flower,wherein,to,lie,curled,

Is,a,Fiction,is,a,lie,
That,will,keep,God,in,the,sky.”
― Jose Garcia Villa, Doveglion: Collected Poems

“An,Epigram,
Is,an,epic,Weight,

Concealed,
In,a,gram’s,Space.”
― Jose Garcia Villa, Doveglion: Collected Poems

“With,simple,hands—
Like,the,first,hands,of,Adam,
Discovering,Eve.”
― Jose Garcia Villa, Doveglion: Collected Poems

“in blue wihout when blues dream bears
the only living girls are gold
quickly the living boys will bring them stars
and stars will sing them bells

in bells without when bells dream blooms
the only living boys are brave
quickly the living girls will bring them dooms
and dooms will praise their love”
― Jose Garcia Villa, Doveglion: Collected Poems

“A radio made of seawater
Will have mermaids for music:
Who when me they will kiss
All my senses will greet.”
― Jose Garcia Villa, Doveglion: Collected Poems

“But since Christ is not easy
(You must hunt him first among

The white shadows of black birds
With a mask upon your shoulder

And a rose upon your eyes!)—”
― Jose Garcia Villa, Doveglion: Collected Poems

“I can no more hear Love’s
Voice.”
― Jose Garcia Villa, Doveglion: Collected Poems