Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

Be careful what you swallow. Chew!

We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.

Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.

I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head.

... sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.