Lighthead Quotes

“I am carrying the whimper
you can hear when the mouth is collapsed, the wisdom
of monkeys. Ask a glass of water why it pities
the rain. Ask the lunatic yard dog why it tolerates the leash.
Brothers and sisters, when you spend your nights
out on a limb, there’s a chance you’ll fall in your sleep.”
― Terrance Hayes, Lighthead

“I’ll eat you to live: that’s poetry.”
― Terrance Hayes, Lighthead

“I wish I could weep the way my teacher did as he read us Molly Bloom’s soliloquy of yes.”
― Terrance Hayes, Lighthead

“If you and every person in the county mailed
me an envelope of five to ten dollars, I think
I could rehabilitate the sheep.”
― Terrance Hayes, Lighthead

“I believe everything is a metaphor for sex.”
― Terrance Hayes, Lighthead

“Thus, I am here where poets come to drink a dark strong poison with tiny shards of ice, something to loosen my primate tongue and its syllables
of debris. I know all words come from preexisting words and divide until our pronouncements develop selves.”
― Terrance Hayes, Lighthead

“I am not going to describe her face because I want you to think of her as a bride.”
― Terrance Hayes, Lighthead