We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder
Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.
If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.
Our government is a bird with two right wings. . . They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.
I was on television a couple of years ago and the reporter asked me, "How does it feel being on mainstream media? It's not often poets get on mainstream media. " I said, "Well I think you're the dominant media, the dominant culture, but you're not the mainstream media. The mainstream media is still the high culture of intellectuals: writers, readers, editors, librarians, professors, artists, art critics, poets, novelists, and people who think. They are the mainstream culture, even though you may be the dominant culture. "
Make your mind learn its way around the heart.
I'm so accustomed to being alone.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.
When you think of fashion photography, it's a dream. It's like we all want to be those women. We want to wear those dresses.
Inside my mother's death I lay and could not breathe.