If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

Follow your own weird.

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.

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.

It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.