Runner's World Yoga Book II, Anderson World Books, Inc., 1983 ISBN 0-89037-274-8
“The American Academy of Emergency Medicine confirms it: Each year, between one and two dozen adult US males are admitted to ERs after having castrated themselves. With kitchen tools, usually sometimes wire cutters. In answer to the obvious question, surviving patients most often report that their sexual urges had become a source of intolerable conflict and anxiety. The desire for perfect release and the real-world impossibility of perfect, whenever-you-want-it release had together produced a tension they could no longer stand.”
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"A Film from the Sixties"
Poems New and Collected (1998), No End of Fun (1967)

From an Interview with John Wood of the Boston Globe with Guru Maharaj Ji in Newton, Massachusetts, August 3, 1973, published in And It Is Divine ~ Dec. 1973, Volume 2. Issue 2.
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“A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end.”
The Paris Review, "Writers at Work: 4th series," interview with Peter Buckman and William Fifield (1969).
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