And always embrace things, people earth sky stars, as I do, freely and with the appropriate sense of space..

A man was the cause of it all. An unarmed man with a weapon..

The stars fell one by one into his eyes and burnt..

I embraced a cloud but when I soared it rained..

I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life….

Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible.

oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much.

O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors.

the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are.

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern..

You just go on your nerve..

It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible q….

I am always tying up and then deciding to depart..

Even trees understand me! Good heavens, I lie under them, too, don't I? I'm just like a pile of leaves..

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final chapter no one reads beca….

Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!.

I don't ... like rhythm, assonance, all that stuff. You just go on your nerve. If someone's chasing you down the street with a knife you just run, yo….

I have, for my own projected works and ideas, only the silliest and dewiest of hopes; no matter what, I am romantic enough or sentimental enough to w….

The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the death of literature as we know it..

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love..

life perpetuated in parti-colored loves and beautiful lies all in different languages..