Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.

I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy

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.

Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.