"I'm a romantic. I'm a sentimentalist. I'm a humanist. I'm all of those things."

"Politicians are ugly caricatures of the human spirit."

"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does."

"I don't think there's any problem with advancing consciousness and becoming more and more aware of the struggle, not with the world, not to convince other people to do anything. The really interesting…"

"I'm not a guru. I'm a student."