I want to be a saint, a real saint while I am young, for there is so much work to do.

The desire to have power dissolves. The desire to dominate people for love dissolves. On the other hand, it's a relief to realize you can let go.

I know too much and not enough

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

You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.

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.

Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel!