"I'm not a nature poet. I've only written two poems about nature."

"I'm a writer of the people. I don't write for the critics. I write for the people."

"Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice."

"What makes a poem a poem is the way it sounds. It must sound right. It must have the sound of sense."

"I am not a liberal. I am a radical. I am as radical as anything you ever saw."