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

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.….

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

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..

An entomologist is not a bug..

The free, creative, loving people who shine so brightly in my memory of studios and coffee shops have become models for a huge section of the populat….

The moral issues with which Marcus struggles would be, as he points out, unchanged whether the universe were mechanical and devoid of meaning or valu….

Ex-cons always say, "You never know what makes the wheels go round until you've done time in the joint." This is even more true of psychiatric hospit….

Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses..

Today we hear a great deal about Organizational Men, Mass Culture, Conformity, the Lonely Crowd, the Power Elite and its Conspiracy of Mediocrity. We….

Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness..

Lost in loneliness and pain. Black and unendurable, Thinking of you with every Corpuscle of my flesh, in Every instant of night And day..

Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization..

Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters..

The dumping of the mentally ill, full of these new psychiatric drugs, into the streets is a scandal. It's been carried furthest in New York, where wh….

Men who live like Casanova are seldom interested in themselves; their egocentricity does not give them time for egotism..

With my own group I like to keep it loose. They have to counter rather than go with me. When they stop I like to be moving..

Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?.

Marriage is the last sacrament available to modern man, and with the terrible destruction of interpersonal relations by capitalism and its war-making….