“When I reached the vestibule of my apartment building, the campus police closed in on me. I heard Professor Edelstein shout, it's okay, he's a poet. Matter of fact, the best black ... the best poet writing today." The cops instantly backed off. I was protected by poetic immunity. I had permission to act crazy.”
Source: The White Boy Shuffle
“When the sullen evening arrived,the sun drowned down the distant horizon with a yellow banded light,diffused with the unsettled,dismal clouds,flown above the blue-deep Ocean that queerly stretched.”
Source: Venus and Crepuscule
“The reformer’s striving attempts that brought the Fire to the world was resisted and put to suffer,like Prometheus,while Zeus ceased him to capture his spirits of eternally replenished liver.”
Source: Venus and Crepuscule
“That society must to listen,the real truth;for that,nature has her sequel shifts,thus she makes her sensible experiments around the earth—with her enduring laws to obey while she moves.”
Source: Venus and Crepuscule
“When there is fear,I will have my pen hold high,when the wonders of night give its light, I lie behind the familiar world with a strange crown, not of Lilly,nor of violets,not of hawthorn,not of maple,but burthen words my fallen tears build an avenger’s crown.”
Source: The Bell Ringing Woman: A Blue Bell of Inspiration
“O' sprite full Maia, come attire our lands with
your boundless prize,of joyful swelling by the nature's pleasing bloom and green surprise;
to sprout a floral bedding round the yards and shades for worthy dales;and birds will spin their adorned bowers over the dewy boughs and vales.”
Source: Halcyon Wings: 'These passions feathers are gathering on a winged vision'
“Poets, most of whom live with their parents, like to think that mysterious people elude description, defying definition. They don't. Poets are just lazy.”
Source: Peril in the Old Country
“Poets cut corners so often it's a wonder poetry isn't written on round paper.”
Source: Peril in the Old Country
“Well, what the heck, poets are supposed to be odd, aren’t they?”
Source: Swann
“I AM crazy and bold enough to think that I CAN change the world.”