Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder

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

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my present role as a gadfly, to use my soapbox to promote my various ideas and obsesions.

Make your mind learn its way around the heart.

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.