Andalways embrace things, people earthsky stars, as I do, freely and withthe appropriate sense of space.

O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors

oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.

the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are

Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible

And always embrace things, people earth sky stars, as I do, freely and with the appropriate sense of space.

Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!

I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.

And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.

Do not be passive when you feel discouraged

a young man was hung by a rope made of Stalingrad snow

It is easier to set a limit for yourself, but if you do so you will never reach your true potential. You have an obligation to live up to your potential.

We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness.

My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry.

Enough. Man is capable of reform once presented with the facts, and the fact is that bottling water and shipping it is a big waste of fuel, so stop already.

I need to find creative diversity because if I get stuck, I get unhappy.

All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows.

As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.

I don't live by "The Rules" you know, and if there's one person who has influenced me in that way of thinking, someone who is a maverick, someone who does 'that' to the system then it's Ian Botham.