The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.

The 'idea' for the poem, which may come as an image thrown against memory, as a sound of words that sets off a traveling of sound and meaning, as a curve of emotion (a form) plotted by certain crises of events or image or sound, or as a title which evokes a sense of inner relations; this is the first 'surfacing' of the poem. Then a period of stillness may follow.

Exchange is creation.

As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.

Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience.