“Whatever is language is poetic language and if the word required by the poet does not exist in his known language then it is up to him to discover it.”

“There are no barriers to poetry or prophecy; by their nature they are barrier-breakers, bursts of perceptions, lines into infinity. If the poet lies about his vision he lies about himself and in hi...”

“Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually destroy the poet.”

“Like seasonless fowl we migratefrom East Coast to West Coastand back and forth again,for a job,for a friend,for a change,for a kick.”

“love grown dutiful is love grown olda withered cupid faltering at the bow”

“Like seasonless fowl we migrate…from East Coast to West Coastand back and forth again,for a job,for a friend,for a change,for a kick.”

“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great...”

“What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cove...”

“What we get when we turn pro is we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and live out.”

“Kyo: Of course, I'll beat YOU, too!Yuki: Don't you ever get tired of saying that?Kyo: Beating you is my vocation! It's my goal in life!Yuki: It's so unfair that I keep having to take abuse just bec...”

“For once I want the beat louder than my mind.”

“Its a sort of furtiveness Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge theres no use flaunting on that level, the level of the public, a kind of beatness I mean, being ...”

“Distance unites missing beats of two hearts in love”

“My pen beats faster as I write with my heart”

“I sit down and say, and I run all my friends and relatives and enemies one by one in this, without entertaining any angers or gratitudes or anything, and I say, like 'Japhy Ryder, equally empty, eq...”