The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.

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.

Each of us has the power to take action, to light a fire and be the ignition for others.

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect.

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Don't take counsel of your fears.

The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.

Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.

The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.

Murder may pass unpunishd for a time, But tardy justice will oertake the crime.

It's not about winning or losing, but love and respect.

In America, the 1 percent and the 10 percent are doing just fine, but the people who are bearing the brunt of this economy are the ones who suffer.

The competition is cutthroat, even among best friends. And you have to be able to, by virtue of experience, be able to deal with it.