There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.

The combination of drugs, homosexuality, some good prose recited on screen. . . . In the sweat lodge ceremony we went through, did you get any glimpse of the Ugly Spirit, what that was historically or biographically?

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. By poetry I mean the imagining of what has been lost and what can be found - the imagining of who we are and the slow realization of it.

When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain.

It's never to late to do nothing at all.

What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?

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