Will be but corpses dressed in frocks,
who cannot speak to birds or rocks.

But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly at home. The sum of a field's forces [become] what we call very loosely the 'spirit of the place.' To know the spirit of a place is to realize that you are a part of a part and that the whole is made or parts, each of which in a whole. You start with the part you are whole in.

It gave a sense of the possibilities of an alternative culture. And it wasn't just poetry that moved people. It was the sense of a community, of people with a vision.

I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop.

I’m with you in Rockland
where we are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.