If you want to make order, put your own heart in order, and, having put one's heart in order, one can regulate the family order.

I didn't know the names of the flowers - now my garden is gone.

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

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

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

in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night

I'm an old man now, and a lonesome man in Kansas / but not afraid / to speak my lonesomeness in a car, / because not only my lonesomeness / it's Ours, all over America, / O tender fellows --/ & spoken lonesomeness is Prophecy / in the moon 100 years ago or in / the middle of Kansas now.