The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind.

The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems.

A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest Africa, that part of yourself that will never be tamed.

The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind.

Forward my mail to Mars.

The unconscious creates, the ego edits.

Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our minds, waiting for our call. We have need of them, for in their sum they epitomize the wisdom and experience of the race.