I have died so little today, friend, forgive me.

The poem began with the title. Then I was annoyed by one of the occasional poetry-is-dead articles. Then I refute that notion.

No poem ever bought a hamburger, or not too many.

There’s plenty of room for strangeness, mystery, originality, wildness, etc. in poems that also invite the reader into the human and alive center about which the poem circles.

The secret to happiness is complaining very little.

I am becoming aware of the truth that people change people as much as ideas change people.The power of personality is strong . . . often personality is greater than the idea.

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

I think once you get it in your head, that you're not going to do anything bigger, you just do things that you enjoy, which has always been my ethos anyway.

There is a fine line between serendipity and stalking.

There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.

Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

Few ever see what is not already inside their heads.