I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.

You can publish a poem you think is a very important poem, and you don't hear a word from anyone. [...] You can publish a book of poetry by dropping it off a cliff and waiting to hear an echo. Quite often, you'll never hear a thing. So doing that, using older work, puts it in a context, and that sort of forces the reader to realize what its importance is-if it has any. Everything needs a context. You're not going to recognize a poet unless you have a context.

Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country

The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it.

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more than ever. But I'm not so interested in nostalgia. I'm interested in the future.

Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.