Occupation: Poet Birth: December 22, 1905 Death: June 6, 1982
Crooked cards and straight whiskey, Slow horses and fast women..
Men who live like Casanova are seldom interested in themselves; their egocentricity does not give them time for egotism..
Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: the creative act..
Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy.
The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech..
Love is the garment of knowledge..
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..
An entomologist is not a bug..
You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America..
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….
Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters..
Today we hear a great deal about Organizational Men, Mass Culture, Conformity, the Lonely Crowd, the Power Elite and its Conspiracy of Mediocrity. We….
The holiness of the real Is always there, accessible In total immanence. The nodes Of transcendence coagulate In you, the experiencer, And in th….
Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness..
Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses..
Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust..
The modern sensibility attempts to drain the contents of experience; these Greek poets strive to state the fact so poignantly that it becomes an ever….
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 ….
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.….
Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization..
Marriage is the last sacrament available to modern man, and with the terrible destruction of interpersonal relations by capitalism and its war-making….