Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page.

Money is sullen And wisdom is sly, But youth is the pollen That blows through the sky And does not ask why.

There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!

We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make. A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound, But we make them something neither cloth nor a sound, Totems of love and hate, black sorcery-stones.

When my own writing needs a perk, I open Zukofsky and read from "A" - particularly sections "22" and "23." It can be opaque, but I love the intensity.