The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene

The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

From it's inception Beat poetry was hailed as "something NEW" and "like all good spontaneous jazz, newness is acceptable and expected - by hip people who listen." But the newness of jazz has in it the echoes of J. S. Bach.

None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.

The suffering itself is not so bad; it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.

A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.