Famous Quotes by Jim Carroll

“I'll Die For Your Sins If You Live For mine.”

Poetry isn't like any other writing. It thrives in silence, in waiting.

You don’t see the world the same way after you’ve walked through it for so long.

I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it.

Poetry is like a second soul, it walks alongside you, unseen.

Dreams, like rivers, must flow unrestrained.

You’re only as trapped as you choose to be.

Hope, even in its smallest dose, is more powerful than any dark thought.

Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.

I write poetry to save my life, to preserve my sanity.

I can't afford to be an angel. I've been one too many times.

Being an artist means bearing witness to life, even the darkest parts.

Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light... I just want to be pure.

You see, I learned something early on in my life. That life itself is the art.

I was a lonely, frightened kid, but I had poetry.

You cannot read the signs on the road ahead if you’re only looking back.

My mind keeps running, keeps chasing the wind. But my soul rests easy in the silence.

Sometimes, you have to erase memories to rewrite the future.

I fell into poetry and it became a lifeline, a language to explain what couldn’t be explained.

It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.

Reality isn’t real, but what you make of it is.