The man who believes in giraffes would swallow anything.

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

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

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.

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.

In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy.

Whoever does decide to awaken should put their whole effort, attention, and life into it, in order to make it succeed.

At times his arrogance did resolve itself into simplicity, though it was difficult, especially for strangers, to distinguish these occasions.

Man's dominion is a call to service, not a license to to exterminate.

Faith puts the power of the universe at your disposal.

I learned you can't drink whiskey and play golf.

We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation.

You have to put these hooks in it, you know? You've got to make sure you got all that ear candy in it to get it through the gate.

One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or the Continental Congress.

Charles Barkley was a big teddy bear.