Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

Academia is a graveyard of poets.

The work of the artist is to heal the soul.

It was not the purpose of poetry to record anything and everything, to merely describe either the outer world or some subjective mood, but to speak from the imagination of the poet to the imagination of the reader.

And see the peaceful trees extend their myriad leaves in leisured dance- they bear the weight of sky and cloud upon the fountain of their veins.

Nature is the common, universal language, understood by all.