"We have always made mistakes, but the greatest mistakes are the poems we have written" -- Sammi Rosenstock

"What does not change / is the will to change" -- Charles Olson

"I suddenly realized that this existence was it! And that I was born in order to experience up to this moment, that I was having this experience, to realize what this was all about -- in other words that this was the moment that I was born for. This initiation. Or this vision or this consciousness, of being alive unto myself, alive myself unto the Creator -- who loved me, I realized, or who responded to my desire" -- Allen Ginsberg

"Anything can follow anything else (providing nothing is taken as the basis)." -- John Cage

"Incomprehension is the subtitle" -- Bruce Andrews

"To the working artist there is no such state as Form. or Content." - Clark Coolidge

"Well, first of all, the one thing that we were all in agreement with was that there should be no program, and that the poem, as we imagined it, should be the possibility of everything we have as experience. There should be no limit of programmatic order." -- John Ashbery