Nobody could've ever known I was positive because I didn't know.

I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet.

Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once take them out of the room one at a time.

I was losing interest in politics when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

When governments become large voters cannot exercise close oversight otherwise known as political power.

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings to the unknown and returns us to our rational structured selves refreshed.

So poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

I am an enthusiast but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then if possible add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success.