"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