Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.

I'll be damned if death wears my sadness for glad rags.

Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.

You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.

Once you let yourself begin to be grown-up, you face a world full of problems you can't solve. The politicians and specialists - adults, all - have a hard enough time trying to figure out where to look. It doesn't have to be that way. The greatest solutions in society are reached by corporate thinking, ruled by a motive to either make a profit or go out of business.

So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.