I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

When I am sad and wearyWhen I think all hope has goneWhen I walk along High HolbornI think of you with nothing on

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.

I was run over by the truth one day.Ever since the accident I've walked this way

I don't like writing essays or theory.

The man who believes in giraffes would swallow anything.

I would have walked on the waterBut I wasn't fully insured.And the BMA sent a writ my wayWith the very first leper I cured.

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal.

If we want to go Fast than go Alone but if We want to go Far, lets go Together..adopt the "We" spirit..Life isn't all about "Selfie

Few people when meet first time they feel that meeting each other was the purpose of their life.

Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see.

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.

I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.

Zen has lost its zip, if you will, or its nothingness and has become ritualistic Its established in monastaries with strict codes of koan study.

For our hearts are enfeebled by prosperity, so that we cannot make the effort to pray.

Just because you're a belter doesn't make you funny; it just means that's how your pipes are set up.

Conventional wisdom would have one believe.