I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection ye….

I was up day and night with Lincoln for years. I couldn't have picked a better companion..

An expert is a damn fool a long way from home..

Let your heart look on white sea spray and be lonely. Love is a fool star. You and a ring of stars may mention my name and then forget me. Love is a ….

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder..

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny..

It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am….

The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off..

The greatest certainty in life is death. The greatest uncertainty is the time..

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work. I am the grass. I cover all..

Enough small empty boxes thrown into a big empty box fill it full..

Didn't you tie the mittens on her feet (Wednesday Evening's) extra special nice? Yes--she is an extra special nice pigeon. She cries for pity when sh….

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable..

Life goes before we know what it is. / One fool is enough in any house. / Even God gets tired of too much hallelujah. / Take it easy and live long as….

Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets..

Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers..

Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike..

To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass..

And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist..

Alike and ever alike, we are on all continents in the need of love, food, clothing, work, speech, worship, sleep, games, dancing, fun. From tropics t….

In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite..