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• The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.
• I smoke marijuana every chance I get.
• First thought, best thought.
• It's time we did something to assert ourselves. After all, we do comprise 10% of the population.
• The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse.
• Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine. Jiggling your knees blankeyed in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold…
• There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.
• Be careful, you are not in Wonderland. I've heard the strange madness long growing in your soul. But you are fortunate in…
• I am neither romantic nor a visionary, and that is my weakness and perhaps my power; at any rate it is one…
• You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're…
• Things are symbols of themselves.
• It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving up as…

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