“Imagination governs the world.”

“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.”

“To have a viable civilization, people have to have a benign government, a semblance of education, spare time, imagination, and manners”

“I tried hard to imagine my poems or any poems as machines that could make things happen, changing the government, or the economy or even their language, the body or its sensorium, but I could not imagine this, could not even imagine imagining it. And yet when I imagined the total victory of those other things over poetry, when I imagined, with a sinking feeling, a world without even the terrible excuses for poems that kept faith with the virtual possibilities of the medium, without the sort of absurd ritual I'd participated in that evening then I intuited an inestimable loss, a loss not of artworks but of art, and therefore infinite, the total triumph of the actual, and I realized that, in such a world, I would swallow a bottle of white pills.”

“The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.”

“Great faith overcomes laws of nature that govern physical world.”