Poets, come out of your closets, Open your windows, open your doors, You have been holed up too long in your closed worlds... Poetry should transport the public/to higher places/than other wheels can carry it.

Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace' One grand boulevard with trees with one grand cafe in sun with strong black coffee in very small cups. One not necessarily very beautiful man or woman who loves you. One fine day.

Make your mind learn its way around the heart.

Today America's on the wrong side of the world revolution. What I mean by that is, the world revolution is the people's revolution, the liberation movements in all the third world countries, which when everyone tries to get started the U.S. stops.

I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.

There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.