I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

All I know is a door into the dark

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

Wine and a straitjacket. That pretty much sums it up.

Working is actually a pleasure. It's just very time-consuming. It's a way of life. I find that I can work when I travel and work when I run. There is nothing like, on a rainy day, to work.

The right to freedom of association is fine, but why shouldn't the cops be allowed to mine your social network to figure out if you're hanging out with gangbangers and terrorists?

I was a disinterested student.

You can transmit the kundalini physically when people are there, and of course, long distance. It is energy, inter-dimensional energy.

By God's help, and the intelligent use of their own strong right arms they could accomplish great things.

My mother use to call me 'Miss Perpetual Motion' because I rarely keep still.

To be proven wrong should be celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding, furthering awareness.

Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.

Have strength in yourself always .think and remember not just what you should do, but also what you want to do. (Ageha , Basara, Vol. 13)