It's a rare thing not to have been bonny-- once.
Not all lines, not all images, survive their season.
Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.
If you want to change the world's spirit, I will suggest that only poetry can do this.
The urge to kill, like the urge to beget, Is blind and sinister. Its craving is set Today on the flesh of a hare: tomorrow it can Howl the same way for the flesh of a man.
The times spat at me. I spit back at the times.
Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.
So Fox News is the voice of America and Obama is Stalin? Oh my God! I guess that makes me Yakov Smirnoff.
The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.
It is very common. . . to tell graduates: dream and dream big. I say do more than that. When you dream you are in an unconscious state. It ends. You wake up. It's not real.
It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.