“As long as there are young people, and old people, too, who can imagine realities beyond seeing and touching, and as long as there are poets, and artists, and musicians, there will be unicorns.”

“If you would understand a people, look at them through the eyes of the poet, the musician and the artist.”

“Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.”

“Choice, and all its attendant energy, is a characteristic of youth. It is before one chooses that one feels desire and longing without fulfillment, which gives an edge to any artistic endeavor. Galway Kinnell recently said in an interview that a young poet has so many choices but an old poet must simply endure his chosen life.”

“Advice to Young Poets Never pretend to be a unicorn by sticking a plunger on your head.”

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be”