I would just listen to records and learn what I could, then just roll it over and over and over.
The poet is the one who breaks through our habits.
A world to be born under your footsteps.
The only menace is inertia.
Followers of trails and of seasons, breakers of camp in the little dawn wind, seekers of watercourses over the wrinkled rind of the world, o seekers, o finders of reasons to be up and be gone.
Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
It turns out most of the conclusions that I've come to in life have equally valid contradictions. I think it's true you need to make a plan, set a goal and stick to it, but I would also advise: Don't keep your eyes so fixed on your goal that you miss what sneaks up to surprise you, because magic will come from unexpected places.
Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.
I am definitely as happy as I've ever been. Happier, I would say, than I've ever been.