My country tears of thee.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder

I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

I kept getting the odd sensation that I was in fact perfectly stationary, and that I was pushing the world around under my feet.

I felt as though a large knot of flames had been lit in my stomach, making me feel nauseous and excited all at once

Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.

Oftentimes, we get advice from people who are not equipped to give it, and it does more harm than good.

Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.

Parkour belongs to the ones who live it, not the ones who want to live thanks to it.

Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.

This country was founded by a group of slave owners who told us that all men are created equal.

Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.