I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

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.

I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.

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

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

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.

Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country