Only a few will LEAD

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

Beyond this vale of tears there is a life above. unmeasured by the flight of years; and all that life is love.

When I first went to America in 1928, there were spittoons everywhere. I remember avoiding spit as it flew past me in Times Square. Very unattractive.

And to the faithful: death, the gate of life.

The greatest happiness is family happiness.

A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it to you. If this doesn't touch you, I have failed.

All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.

I think people in America have had enough, and Donald Trump's the change agent.

That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.