My wails of sorrow are tormenting my soul
In the silence of love you will find the spark of life
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
Es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olvido.
It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.
If the colour of life turns grey turn the palette the other way
A bunch of bad songs, make an awful whine.
What, you egg? [He stabs him.]
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.
sometimes i am not sure. if i am writing the poem or the poem is writing me.
Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.
What have we here, laddie? Mysterious scribblings? A secret code? Oh, poems, no less! Poems, everybody!
Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.
I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.
Whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.
Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
since the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid
There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.
Love from the heart shows itself in meekness and not in tumultuous drumbeats.
