Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

The ellipse is as aimless as that, Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear In our present. Its flexing is its account, Return to the point of no return.

You stupefied me. We waxed, Carnivores, late and alight In the beaded winter. All was ominous, luminous.

Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.

The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is.

In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat.

Close People Are That Closer, As They Can Share Everything With A Stranger But Not To The Really Closed Ones.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

The best way to renew thought is to go outside the human imagination.

Rock and roll is catching on all over . . . France . . . England . . . They even have it in Japan, only over there they call it judo.

The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.

If I can tell my story, and help anybody else in the interim, then that's icing on the cake.

Talk to people who know more than you. I feel like we're in this stupid sea of opinion, like "My opinion is valid because it's mine and I have it."

I'll never get laid trying to keep you safe. You're a train wreck on steroids.

I kind of strive for being able to go home and having a totally separate life.

Education is an admirable thing.