There are several more careers more engaging to follow than that of poetry. But the circumstances of one's birth, the conduct of one's parents, the c….

The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there….

Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation. You know quite well that I doubt that our present st….

Stars scribble on our eyes the frosty sagas, The gleaming cantos of unvanquished space. (Cape Hatteras.

Permit me voyage, love, into your hands..

And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the w….

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - unti….

The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, w….

And so it was I entered the broken world To trace the visionary company of love, its voice An instant in the wind (I know not whither hurled) But not….

[The essences of things] are suspended on the invisible dimension whose vibrance has been denied the human eye at all times save in the intuition of ….

I cannot figure out just what Dadaism is beyond an insane jumble of the four winds, the six senses, and plum pudding. But if the Baroness is to be a ….

And so she comes to dream herself the tree, The wind possessing her, weaving her young veins, Holding her to the sky and its quick blue, Drowning the….

And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more cont….

Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery..

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment..

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them..

Goodbye, everybody! (Suicide note).

I can remember much forgetfulness..

Love: a burnt match skating in a urinal..