In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat.

Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because of the strong possibilities that they are founded on nothing.

Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Therefore bivouac we On this great, blond highway, unimpeded by Veiled scruples, worn conundrums. Morning is Impermanent. Grab sex things, swing up Over the horizon like a boy On a fishing expedition.

Each servant stamps the reader with a look.

It never seems to occur to anyone that each reader is different, and that even those who might be said to resemble each other will each bring an individual set of experiences and references to their reading, and interpret and misinterpret it according to these.