I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.

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.

National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.

Good luck has its storms.

It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.

Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.

Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.

However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years.

For what you do to others, you do to yourself.

Line by line, moment by moment, special times are etched into our memories in the permanent ink of everlasting love in our relationships.

I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.

I sing, and I really should've stuck with it, because it's really what I love to do. It's probably what I'm best at, too.