When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.

Our freedom must be buttressed by a homogeny equally and unchallengeably free, no matter what color they are, so that all the other inimical forces everywhere -- systems political or religious or racial or national -- will not just respect us because we practice freedom, they will fear us because we do.

This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward.

Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique.

Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.