Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.
I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American.
I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.
We have to raise the consciousness the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it.
I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.
No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.
We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.
They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.
Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.
It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.
We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.
Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.
