Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

Make your mind learn its way around the heart.

I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.

The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it.

The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.

If you're going to be a writer you should sit down and write in the morning, and keep it up all day, every day. Charles Bukowski, no matter how drunk he got the night before or no matter how hungover he was, the next morning he was at his typewriter. Every morning. Holidays, too. He'd have a bottle of whiskey with him to wake up with, and that's what he believed. That's the way you became a writer: by writing. When you weren't writing, you weren't a writer.

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.