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

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.

It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.

We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.

I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.

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