Make your mind learn its way around the heart.

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

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.

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

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