Poetry Is Eternal Graffiti Written

There Is An Ecstatic Mechanism In Birds That Makes Them Fly Upwards In Spite Of Worms.

Poetry Must Be Capable Of Answering The Challenge Of Apocalytpic Times, Even If This Means Sounding Apocaltypic.

I Certainly Was Surprised To Be Named Poet Laureate Of This Far-out City On The Left Side Of The World, And I Gratefully Accept, For As I Told The Mayor, "how Could I Refuse?" I'd Rather Be Poet Laureate Of San Francisco Than Anywhere Because This City Has Always Been A Poetic Center, A Frontier For Free Poetic Life, With Perhaps More Poets And More Poetry Readers Than Any City In The World.

Almost Every Truly Creative Being Alienated & Expatriated In His Own Country

We Have Seen The Best Minds Of Our Generation Destroyed By Boredom At Poetry Readings.