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

They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.

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.

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

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

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.

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