The role of the poet is almost nothing...drearily nothing. And when he steps outside of his boots and tries to get tough as our dear Ezra [Pound] did, he will get his pink little ass slapped.

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.

‎"she’ mad but she’ magic. there’ no lie in her fire.

If I have any advice to anybody it's this: take up watercolor painting.

That's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.

The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.

there is moss on the walls and the stain of thought and failure and waiting