The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained..

As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem..

We have forgotten love, and Sat lonely beside each other. We have eaten together, Lonely behind our plates, we Have hidden behind children, We have s….

There have always been those who, though they see tragedy as the outcome of freedom, will nevertheless judge that tragedy is not too high a price to ….

Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation..

It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudenc….

Now I know surely and forever, However much I have blotted our Waking love, its memory is still there. And I know the web, the net, The blind and….

I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. I wish to speak to and for those who have had enoug….

Perhaps this is what really happens in life to most good men. They are not crucified. They simply pass through life and then die, and their passing i….

An entomologist is not a bug..

The holiness of the real Is always there, accessible In total immanence. The nodes Of transcendence coagulate In you, the experiencer, And in th….

Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: the creative act..

Love is the garment of knowledge..

A white crowned night sparrow sings as the moon sets. Thunder growls far off. Our campfire is a single light. Amongst a hundred peaks and waterfalls.….

Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy.

Harvey , Galileo , Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries of Natural Law, reveale….

The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech..

You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America..

Crooked cards and straight whiskey, Slow horses and fast women..

I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book..

When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's ….