That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.

Finally there is nothing here for death to take away.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

I should think that many of our poets, the honest ones, will confess to having no manifesto. It is a painful confession but the art of poetry carries its own powers without having to break them down into critical listings. I do not mean that poetry should be raffish and irresponsible clown tossing off words into the void. But the very feeling of a good poem carries its own reason for being... Art is its own excuse, and it’s either Art or it’s something else. It’s either a poem or a piece of cheese.

The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the "Watchtower" itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out, you're dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff. It's no wonder they keep getting busted.

Beware Those Who Are ALWAYS READING BOOKS