A miserable collection of little secrets, that's all any of us is.
Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.
A literary influence is never just a literary influence. It's also an influence in the way you see everything - in the way you feel your life.
Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.
I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.
I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.
Much that is natural, to the will must yield. Men manufacture both machine and soul, And use what they imperfectly control To dare a future from the taken routes.
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
Helping survivors of residential schools in Canada is not the same as the UN sending in peacekeepers to prevent the genocide in Rwanda. But both are a reflection of our culture and of our priorities. Where there is empathy there is always a solution, where there is apathy there is always an excuse.
What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.
New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up!