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

There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.

A poet's first contract is with truth.

The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.

Penalty is different than punishment, because it offers something with which to regain honor.

Pay me for my work, but I don't do it for the money.

There is no hospitality like understanding.