Make your mind learn its way around the heart.

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 awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder

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.

You call that a kiss?

When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.

The U.S. and Canada are two generous governments and we reach out and partner with anyone who believes in foreign aid.

I praise the God of grace; I trust His truth and might; He calls me His, I call Him mine. My God, my joy and light

The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality.

I feel that if I can show my demise artistically to the public, I can somehow cure my own legend.

If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible.

The heart with compassion is the temple of God.

We often feel that a clever aphorism captures a truth that would require pages to defend in any other way.

Know that the mind which is born to succeed joins itself to a determined will and perseveres.