For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.

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.

To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived.

Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants to win its approval.

I write to shed my tears.

sometimes you care and love people but they didn't realize it. they realize it, when you stop caring or loving them but then, everything is meaningless

He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.

And on that day when my strength is failing; the end draws near and my time has come. Still my soul will sing Your praise unending ten thousand years and then forevermore

Once he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance.

The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.

They're getting crazier every day, the whole world's going crazy. And you got to take your mind out to keep your smile in place.