I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist - if you say you are, you probably aren't.

I am girl of definitions, of logic, of black and white.Remember this.

The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself you open the door to change. That's all you have to do. Change is not something you do it's something you allow.

In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.

I said, you know they refused Jesus, too. He said, you're not him.

Debate is almost non-existent and no one is apparently accountable to anybody apart from their political party bosses. It is bad news for democracy in this country.

When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life.

Who knows why some words ignite the hearts of some readers while others are like wet matches that won't light.

Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried to forget anyway, and to ignore the fact that I was remembering you all the time.

When my mother makes out her income tax return every year, under occupation she writes, eroding my daughter's self-esteem.

It's like that where these little anecdotes come through, and I guess that's what I like about books like that [He Stopped Loving Her Today]. Fiction now is so experiential.