The counterculture is always repackaged and made into a product. It's part of America.

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

When I get depressed, or anything, I go 'think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!' So, it's the one thing. Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?

If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically.

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy.

I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.

Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence.

You need Power, only when you want to do something harmful otherwise Love is enough to get everything done.

So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.

Where now is Britain? . Even as the savage sits upon the stone That marks were stood her capitols, and hears The bittern booming in the weeds, he shrinks From the dismaying solitude.

Her eyes held an endless kind of love for him.

Oh well, whatever, nevermind.

Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life's structure may rest and rise.

I fantasize about everything; being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.

It is a general idea, that when taxes are once laid on, they are never taken off.

Our thoughts are to the individual as our art is to the community.