I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly.

You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing.

If you are terribly truthful, the ground will always move from under you, and you will have to shift with the constantly shifting truth.

If you can't create, you destroy.

The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.

I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, our secret curses, our hidden hate.

You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.