When you're young, everything seems like a romance. At 96, I can still feel romantic about publishing young unknown writers.

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.

…I am left with lessthan one drop of my blood that does not tremble.I recognize the the signs of the old flame.

For even the best err in words when they are meant to mean most delicate and almost inexpressible things.

Never leave home without your memories.

That's what we do when we work in Silicon Valley tech startups: We think about who's going to benefit from this. That's almost the only thing we think about.

Change, if it is to be long lasting, must occur on the unseen levels first

The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.

I do sing about drinking, but it's in a party way. I don't sing about drinking in a drowning-my-sorrows way, like in George Jones's "If Drinking Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)."

You didn't realize emotion could be a weapon? Have you not read the poetry of Jewel?

I think my mother would be very happy if I found a nice Welsh girl.

Open your arms as wide as you can to receive all the miracles with your name on them. Never forget that all you have is all you need.