Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.

Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

If you want to change the world's spirit, I will suggest that only poetry can do this.

The times spat at me. I spit back at the times.

The urge to kill, like the urge to beget, Is blind and sinister. Its craving is set Today on the flesh of a hare: tomorrow it can Howl the same way for the flesh of a man.

Not all lines, not all images, survive their season.

Mom lied. The crust is the shittiest part.

But is there really such a thing as nothing, as nothingness? I don't now. I know we're still here, who knows for how long, ablaze with our care, its ongoing song.

Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.

The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.

In music I feel most deeply the passing of things.

I always liked film as a teaching tool - a way of getting exposed to ideas that had never been presented to me. It just wasn't on the list of career options where I grew up.

The artist looks for a subject. You know, a lot of new poets don't seem to have a subject. I don't totally understand that.

As for people who are politically backward, Communists should not slight or despise them, but should befriend them, unite with them, convince them and encourage them to go forward.

I'm at the age where i don't have to kiss arse or play nice!