Play, and escaping the ideology one grew up in, is freedom.

But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a conversation between friends, a meal.

We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them we change them and are changed.

Insanity is the insistence on meaning.

We live in a hell of opinions.

Once you reach what is / inside it is outside.

Earth you know is round but seems flat. // You can't trust / your senses.

Making is the mirror in which we see ourselves.

To make a film you have to dream a film... that's true of poetry as well.

Though the body is itsgenesis, a poem is the vision of a processCarved in space, vision your poor eye's singlearmor against winter spring summer fall

drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnalround, the monotonous sorrow of the finite, within       I am awakerepairing in dirt the frayed immaculate threadforced by being to watch the birth of suns

What can be explained is not poetry.

The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.

Ted Cruz who's been gaining on [Donald] Trump in Iowa and is polling ahead of him in the latest Monmouth poll would be quite reluctant to criticize Trump's plan saying simply it is not his policy.

Scenery is here. Wish you were beautiful.

Birth Control and abortion are turning out to be the great eugenic advances of our time.

The universe without music would be madness.

Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.

I've been through a lot of stuff.

I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great to have a new experience.

The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry.