New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city.
The confession of one man humbles all.
Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.
I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
More grievous than tears is the sight of them.
Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
History can't give attention to what's been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that enabled success.
It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved again.
I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl a love letter using just my toes.
Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again.