"Poverty makes you sad as well as wise" --Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera
"The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind some people dying
all the time
or maybe only half starving
some of the time
which isn't half so bad
if it isn't you"
--Lawerence Ferlinghetti
"The family is American fascism"--Paul Goodman
"To have great poets there must be great audiences too"--Walt Whitman
"The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness" --Christopher Morley