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Out of the sky, the birds, the parrots, the bells, silk, cloth, and drums, . . . out of Sundays dancing, children' s...
Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.
Source: Notes on a Return to the...
Africa, help me to go home, carry me like an aged child in your arms. Undress me and wash me. Strip me of all of these...
The weakness of most men
they do not know how to become a stone or tree.
It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the...
Your love to me was like an unread book . . .
Source: Bright Bindings, The Black...
So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds,
And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.
My poetry, I should think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.
There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call the breaks. In order...
The play is done, the crowds depart; and see
That twisted tortured thing hung from a tree,
Swart victim of a...
Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine, Jiggling yr knees blankeyed in the rain, When it snows in yr nose you catch...
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think,...
I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks. . . and think of anything that comes...
The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry...
Whoever controls the media -- the images -- controls the culture.
Source: From an...
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking:...
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. . . . What we call art is a...
Deserve your dream.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex...
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death...