Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

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.

No tears are wasted. It is deepest soul soothing.

Naming can satisfy a need, it can shorten a conversation that otherwise might go on for hours.

Basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same thing

I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love.

I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down and break your neck.

I believe that constant effort, tireless effort, pursuing clear goals with sincere effort is the only way

I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.

I still listen to black metal all the time - that's obviously one of my favorite kinds of music - but I steer from it very strongly.

Yet if he upbraided her in his hurry, it was to repent bitterly his temper the next, and to feel its effects more than she, temper being a weapon that we hold by the blade.

Where the heart is the mind works best.