If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.
I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder
Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.
Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.
Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.
Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace' One grand boulevard with trees with one grand cafe in sun with strong black coffee in very small cups. One not necessarily very beautiful man or woman who loves you. One fine day.
We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.
I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I am constantly shocking
See it was like this when we waltz into this place. A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-step And I says Dad let's cut but then this dame comes up behind me see and says you and me could really exist Wow I says Only the next day she has bad teeth and really hates poetry.
I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy
Think long thoughts in short sentences.
Decide if a poem is a question or a declaration, a meditation or an outcry.
Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.
Paper may burn but words will escape.
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.
It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power.
I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.
The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.
Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.
