All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.

The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.

The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

A schism in the body social, will not be resolved by any scheme of a return to the good old days (archaism), or by programs guaranteed to render an ideal projected future (futurism), or even by the most realistic, hardheaded work to weld together again the deteriorating elements. Only birth can conquer death -- the birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new.

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

Do what gives you bliss.

Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.