I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard was touchable, kissable.
Taste has no system and no proofs.
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
The white race is the cancer of human history, it is the white race, and it aloneits ideologies and inventionswhich eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.
. . . what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
We are stark naught all, bad's the best of us.
So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.
I know the polling data shows people have a negative view but if you listen to everything out there, you think, my God. We're in such deep trouble. We created more jobs than every other industrial country in the world combined.
I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.