Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease.

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

In the end, there is no end.

We feel the machine slipping from our hands As if someone else were steering; If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train.

The world is absolutely out of control now and is not going to be saved by any reason or unreason.

Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.

Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.

It is night, And it is vanity, and age Blackens the heart of Adam. Fear, The yellow chirper, beaks its cage.

History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes.

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm.

Popular literature and culture used to reflect people's aspirations, pain, and passion. All those particular things are no longer available to us.

I believe most things can be said in a few lines.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

The dream is not a map. A poem is not the territory. The dreamer reclines in a barbershop carpeted with Afro turf. In the dark some soul yells. It hurts to walk barefoot on cowrie shells.

There is no such thing as perfect happiness.

Successful entrepreneurs judge correctly the need for change, then do something about it.

There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.

If you turned the fabric of our lives over, I imagined the design on the backside would be woven in the bleak grays of doubt and fear.

Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic definition of truth is doomed to failure equally.