War is good business Invest your son

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. By poetry I mean the imagining of what has been lost and what can be found - the imagining of who we are and the slow realization of it.

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

I've got enough money to live where I want, but I don't want to move.Go out and have sexual adventures in Burma.

When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain.

The real America that Whitman proclaimed and Thoreau decoded.

To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.