Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

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.

Heartbreak might be a fact but you don't have to be a victim to it

I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.

Wayne's like my son, Brooklyn, who goes out in the garden to play and have fun.

There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.

I will not back down from defending America. I got elected on defense of our country. I keep my campaign promises, and our citizens will be very happy when they see the result.

Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.

I've got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What are you going to do about it? Are you not going to go?

You will never make it. ‘It’ doesn’t exist for an artist.

Rich dad has taught me "You can't do it" doesn't necessarily mean "you can't". It more often means "they can't".

Hold no grudges and practice forgiveness. This is the key to having peace in all your relationships.