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I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is.
Unlike a state, a writer cannot plead the historical necessity of his actions.
Paperbacks of those we deem classics should be cheap and sold at supermarkets.
No nice extreme a true Italian knows; But bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.
He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.
Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.
Leo Connellan has retained his soul and voice in Provincetown and Other Poems.
Twitter is not art. But it inspires me in the way that art used to inspire me.
It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.
Dogs with broken legs are shot; men with broken souls write through the night.
Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.
Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.
I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.
Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable.
Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur.
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?
Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.
The heart of Jesus glowed, because it was holy. Holy things glowed in general.
The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away.
the body is simple as a turtle / and straight as a dog: / the body cannot lie.
For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.
The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.
My parents didn't care very much what I did, and that was probably a blessing.
Form is endlessly interesting to me, and I love poetry as a formal enterprise.
From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo
Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
Now the swinging bridge Is quieted with creepers ... Like our tendrilled life.
All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
Mind is a light which the Gods mock us with, To lead those false who trust it.
I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.
We're divorced from my father because he did some mean and scary things to us.
True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
You will always be here with me; As long as I live, A towering figure of love.
It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!
After all dying is one of the most profound and difficult experiences we have.
The true lasting quietness... comes from a complete consecration to the Divine
Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience.
I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood.
Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.
Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary.
Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.
Heaven rewards the pious; those who cherish the gods Themselves are cherished.