We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally rules and makes right.

Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Unscrew the locks from the doors ! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs !

Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work.

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he looked upon, that object he became.