Man’s usurpation over nature is an egotism that will destroy human as well as whale kingdoms. … Academies should return to wisdom study in tree groves rather than robot study in plastic cells

So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to go to a very polite mental hospital. When I left eight months later, they said, 'You were never psychotic. You were just an average neurotic.'

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.

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

What came is gone forever every time

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Presumably, if you see spirit at the moment it gained access, then it'll be dropped.