‘Unscrew the locks from the doors!
Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!’ (Howl)
‘—Die,
If thou wouldst be with that which thou dost seek!’ (Kaddish)
‘Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy’ (Reality Sandwiches)
‘O go way man I can
hypnotize this nation
I can shake the earth’s foundation
with the Maple Leaf Rag.’ (Planet News)
‘To find the Western path
Right thro’ the Gates of Wrath
I urge my way;
Sweet Mercy leads me on:
With soft Repentant moan
I see the break of day’ (Gates of Wrath)
‘Thus is the heaven a vortex pass’d already, and the earth
A vortex not yet pass’d by the traveller thro’ Eternity’ (Gates of Wrath)
‘The yearning infinite recoils,
For terrible is earth!’ (Gates of Wrath)
‘… same electric lightning South
follows this train
Apocalypse prophesied—
the fall of America
signalled from Heaven—’ (The Fall of America)
‘Time after time for such a journey none but iron pens
Can write And adamantine leaves receive nor can the man who goes
The journey obstinate refuse to write time after time’ (Mind Breaths)
‘Meeting, the two friends laugh aloud;
In the grove, fallen leaves are many’ (Poems All Over the Place)
‘La science, la nouvelle noblesse! Le progrès. Le monde marche! Pourquoi ne tournerait-il pas?’ (Plutonian Ode)