“Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. ”

“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.”

“I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator. ”

“We the People - shelling the Vietcong”

“Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.”

“My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its remnants and qualities for me to use -- my words piled up, my texts, my manuscripts, my loves.”

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving...”