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.

If you would be a poet, write living newspapers. Be a reporter from outer space, filing dispatches to some supreme managing editor who believes in full disclosure and has a low tolerance for bullshit.

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I am constantly shocking

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

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

We'd like to just write nothing but lyric poetry. The trouble is, the individual is going along intent on his own personal gratifications and love affairs and financial affairs and everything else. But loping alongside him is this fascist lout who keeps trying to take over. And if you keep ignoring him, he gets bigger and bigger, so every once in a while the free individual has to turn away from his private pursuits and give this fascist lout a few clouts, and beat him down to size.