Beat Poetry Quotes
Beat Poetry Quote of the day
Poets are Prisoners8-29-2015Poets are prisonersPractitioners, commissioners &conditioners of the spoken word Caged by their own mindsWords are shackles
If I had a soul I sold itfor pretty wordsIf I had a body I usedit up spurting my essenceAllen Ginsberg warns youdont follow my pathto extinction
The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.
Whatever is language is poetic language and if the word required by the poet does not exist in his known language then it is up to him to discover it.
Poetry is alive because it is a medium of vision and experience. It is not necessarily comfortable.It is not necessarily safe.
Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually destroy the poet.
