I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.

Writing is a delicious agony.

Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.

I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to words, and that words can do wonderful things, and it's too bad to just let them lie there without doing anything with and for them.

It is brave to be involved

The music is in minors.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.