Occupation: Poet Birth: April 29, 1933 Death: January 29, 2015
Laws and machines are shaped to fit the classes..
Do not ask the definition of a friend. He/She is that one without whose company death and dying set in earlier and living is made more pleasurable..
Be gentle with me, new love. Treat me tenderly. I need the gentle touch, the soft voice, the candlelight after nine. There's been so many who didn't ….
I've come to terms with it, it knows I know..
Everybody has the answers or they'll make them up for you. Just once I'd like to hear a brand-new question..
Never fear being alone, because you never are..
People often say 'I live for my art.' Bullshit! If you are given a talent it's to be used. It's not in the private domain..
It's nice sometimes to open up the heart a little and let some hurt come in. It proves you're still alive..
We come into the world alone. We go away the same. We're meant to spend the interlude between in closeness or so we tell ourselves. But it's a long w….
Even when you feel you've reached the end or edge of life, hold on. Life itself will ultimately take care of you..
The journey back is always longer than the forward run..
People are not born bastards. They have to work at it..
I've been going a long time now along the way I've learned some things. You have to make the good times yourself take the little times and make them ….
Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it..
I am not a joiner. Somewhere I once said that people join clubs now for the very reason they once carried them, a need for security. Maybe I'm alone ….
May your hand be full for always if only with another hand. May your heart be empty only long enough to give you cause to fill it up again with love.….
If I could do it over, I'd do better..
To understand others you should get behind their eyes and walk down their spines..
A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against..
People ask me why I connected. It was presumptuous of me to say, but I'm Everyman. The difference is I put my thoughts into words..
There is no other way to find ourselves but in each others faces..