What came is gone forever every time

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.

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

I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.

You are what you think about all day.

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

Every American wants MORE & MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in America is persons accumulate more & more dead matter, machinery, possessions & rugs & fact information at the expense of what really counts as more: feeling, good feeling, sex feeling, tenderness feeling, mutual feeling. You own twice as much rug if you're twice as aware of the rug.