Poetry is our heart, our spirit, our soul. Call it whatever; without it, everything else is nothing but hardware.

Poets can't worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear.

Recognition of one's fellows is distorted when money is prioritized as value itself.

Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.

Popularity is not an indication of quality.

A poet's first contract is with truth.