“If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.”
“Their 'magic' is Art, delivered from many of its human limitations. ”
“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
“The sky is the limit... for some people aim higher nothing is impossible.”
“He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.”
“People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned -- it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned -- and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.”