I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be.

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a book for children. Children still haven't closed themselves off with fear of the unknown, fear of revolution, or the scramble for security. They are still familiar with the inborn vocabulary of myth

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.

I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.

To share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible.

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

you've got to learn to walk through a pigpen and not get dirty.