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

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

I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here.

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.

To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist - if you say you are, you probably aren't.

There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.