Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.

We are all participants in the marvelous.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.

My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.

The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.