Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.

Step off the road. Build yourself a brand new path.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Poetry gave me back my voice.

It is very dangerous to make a person larger than life because, then, young men and women are tempted to believe, well, if he was that great, he's inaccessible, and I can never try to be that or emulate that or achieve that.

We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence.

Spirit is an invisible force made visible in all life.