“if the subject of art
will be a broken jug
a small broken soul
with a great self-pity

what will remain of us
will be like tears of lovers
in a small dirty hotel
when wallpapers dawn”

“And alien tears will fill for him
Pity's long-broken urn,
For his mourners will be outcast men,
And outcasts always mourn.”

“A new dawn has broken, has it not?”

“Lovers lie around in it
Broken glass is found in it
Grass
I like that stuff”

“I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.”

“Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.”

“Another lover hits the universe. The circle is broken. But with death comes rebirth. And like all lovers and sad people, I am a poet.”

“There is nothing like a broken heart to nourish your own sense of self”

“Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.”

“Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.”