Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I think it's the greatest art.

I probably have not killed anyone in America because I write, I've maintained good controls over myself by writing.

What is the beauty of the haiku is that it is not simplistic. The beauty of the haiku I just said is very complex. It reaches all the complexities of our life on this Earth. Peace - that's a very complex idea, peace, so we can't get it as human beings.

I cannot tell the truth about anything unless I confess being a student, growing and learning something new every day. The more I learn, the clearer my view of the world becomes.

You can't have relationships with other people until you give birth to yourself.

... in order to be a true revolutionary, you must understand love. Love, sacrifice, and death.