“Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.”

“We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them -- exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting animals in the name of fashion, and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food.”

“If you really care about animals, then stop trying to figure out how to exploit them 'compassionately'. Just stop exploiting them.”

“It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, it has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- free trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.”

“All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.”

“When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.”