"A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him."
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"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."
"If I had a soul I sold itfor pretty wordsIf I had a body I usedit up spurting my essenceAllen Ginsberg warns youdont follow my pathto extinction"
"Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests"
"I haven’t been very impressed lately.By people,or places,or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind."
"No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book."
"It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted."
"Truths are written, never said... Lines are drawn, but then they fade."
"Our state cannot be severed, we are one,One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself."
"Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme."
"the worst thing,"he told me,"is bitterness, people end up sobitter."
"I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you."
"so much dependsupona red wheelbarrowglazed with rainwaterbeside the whitechickens."
"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."
"When soul meets soul on lovers' lips."
"The way a crowShook down on meThe dust of snowFrom a hemlock treeHas given my heartA change of moodAnd saved some partOf a day I had rued."
"Unreturned love is like trying to make a sandwich with one slice of bread. Don’t stress—fold it in half and love yourself."
"Music is the universal language of mankind."
"Here's a haiku/palindrome I wrote called, "Obsession."Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob,Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob,Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob"
"Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.There is no happiness like mine.I have been eating poetry."