“As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.”

“We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.”

“Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness”

“The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.”

“I think there is choice possible at any moment to us, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice”

“Whereverwe walkwe will makeWhereverwe protestwe will go plantingMake poemsseed grassfeed a child growingbuild a houseWhatever we stand againstWe will stand feeding and seedingWherever I walkI will make”

“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?The world would split open.”