the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.

The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.

A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.

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.

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.

dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality.