Invent a new language anyone can understand.

My country tears of thee.

The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it’s a failure in communication.

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.

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

I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.