I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.

Sanity - a trick of agreement

The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.

No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm.

Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind.

You too must seek the sun.

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.