Joe Ahearn

“Resist much, obey little.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to achieve. Otherwise you're merely imitating yourself, going nowhere, because that's always easiest.”
― John Berryman

“Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.”
― William S. Burroughs

“Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.”
― William S. Burroughs