Very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it.
Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.
Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.
If you want to change the world's spirit, I will suggest that only poetry can do this.
The urge to kill, like the urge to beget, Is blind and sinister. Its craving is set Today on the flesh of a hare: tomorrow it can Howl the same way for the flesh of a man.
The times spat at me. I spit back at the times.
Not all lines, not all images, survive their season.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
The adventure you're ready for is the one you get!
Alas, the very name of picture produces a sadness of heart I cannot describe.
I like to think that people can see that and appreciate that idea and then, by some mechanism of wearing the fragrance, sort of carry that idea with them in their own life. Whether it's a weekend in Louisiana or in New York City or in Venice, Italy, or wherever they may be. I think there's something kind of fascinating and powerful about that.