For Even Bad Poetry Has Relevance For

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.

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

Poetry Is Eternal Graffiti Written In The Heart Of Everyone.

The Real Literary Editors Have Mostly Been Fired. Those That Remain Are All 'bottom Line' Editors; Everything Depends On The Money.

Make Your Mind Learn Its Way Around The Heart.