Poetry can change the world, just like any art can change the world, by changing consciousness. Of course this was the great slogan of the nineteen sixites hippies’ revolution—enlarge the area of consciousness, which quite often was done by psychedelic means.

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.

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

A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.