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I hate that phrase "the real world." Why is an aircraft factory more real than a university? Is it?

I was willingly confused by the times

Never want to say anything so strongly that you give up the option of finding something better. If you have to say it, you will.

If that's too mythical a tone
consider those who conform and know something's wrong
and need a zany few who won't obey.

You are someone and you have a right to your life.

An act of imagination is an act of self-acceptance.

Believe you and I sing tiny
and wise and could if we had to eat stone and go on.

Say nothing and just make music and you'll find plenty to say.

Don't write love poems when you're in love. Write them when you're not in love.

Never write a poem about anything that ought to have a poem written about it.

Assuming you can write clear English sentences, give up all worry about communication. If you want to communicate, use the telephone.

Think small ... If you can't think small, try philosophy or social criticism.

Never has your Buick / found this forward a gear.

Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive.

If you are really strange you are always in enemy territory, and your constant concern is survival.

In the world of imagination, all things belong.

A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.

You owe reality nothing and the truth about your feelings everything.

A good creative-writing teacher can save a good writer a lot of time.

I think it's better if you write poems that look like you.

A poet is seldom hard up for advice. The worst part of it all is that sometimes the advice is coming from other poets, and they ought to know better.