As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s.

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing act of violence.

The truth is always multiplex.

Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.

Ambition like a liquid ruby stains.

The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.

Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

You do not need to think about a month, you need to plan the day

Every traveler has their unique observation of the place they have been.

Even silence tends to scream in a strained relationship.

In this slipshod age, we need object lessons in language and thought. – Edith Wharton on an address by John Hay

But year after year that summons, unheard but felt, was disobeyed. His one secret thought became like a chain binding down his spirit and like a serpent gnawing into his heart.

Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.

In the grand collage that is Dada, past and future are equally usable.

All the world's people should share all the world's resources.

Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.

Lover please do not fall to your knees it's not like I believe in everlasting love