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Of all the Christbitten places in the two hemispheres, (Los Angeles) is the last curly kink in the pig's tail.

When my own writing needs a perk, I open Zukofsky and read from "A" - particularly sections "22" and "23." It can be opaque, but I love the intensity.

There are many trials that seem hard to bear at first which prove true blessings later when we see of what false materials they were first composed.

I am tired of loving a foreign muse.

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth.

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.

We cannot be a house divided - divided in will, divided in interest, divided in soul. We cannot be a house divided and live.

Something begins, begins;Starlit and sunlit, something walks abroadIn flesh and spirit and fire.Something is loosed to change the shaken world.

It is better the truth should come little by little. I have learned that, being a priest. Perhaps, in the old days, they ate knowledge too fast.

Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years - a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds.

I died in my boots like a pioneer With the whole wide sky above me.

Money is sullen And wisdom is sly, But youth is the pollen That blows through the sky And does not ask why.

Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men.

Broad-streeted Richmond ... The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.

A man with a mouth like a mastiff, a brow like a mountain, and eyes like burning antracite - that was Dan'l Webster in his prime.

When Daniel Boone goes by at night
The phantom deer arise
And all lost, wild America
Is burning in their eyes.

Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory.

I had lost something in my youth and made money instead.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

You work hard, and you'll rise. But, if you've got any foolish notions, just knock them on the head and forget them.

You can take off your hats now, gentlemen, and I think perhaps you'd better.

Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot of exciting things.

Even in hell, if a man was a man, you'd know it.

One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart.

I do think that the kind of writing that I do will always be around and printed in books, magazines, and now blogs.

A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of the poem will unravel from that catalyst.

Books are not men and yet they are alive.

There is a wilderness we walk alone
However well-companioned

The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.

The ant finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.

If two New Hampshiremen aren't a match for the devil, we might as well give the country back to the Indians.

Seine and Piave are silver spoons,
But the spoonbowl-metal is thin and worn

Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!

There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff.

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.

As for what you're calling hard luck - well, we made New England out of it. That and codfish.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

It is forbidden to go east, but I have gone, forbidden to go on the great river, but I am there. Open your hearts, you spirits, and hear my song.

Oh, Georgia booze is mighty fine booze, The best yuh ever poured yuh, But it eats the soles right offen yore shoes, For Hell's broke loose in Georgia.

Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page.

I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in.

Life was a storm to wander through.

I think a blog is a catalyst for a number of possible kinds of writing besides being its own medium.

Treat a boy like a fool and he'll act like a fool, I say, but there's some folks need convincing.

Trouble with women. Can't do any art and be married if you're in love with your wife.