"Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars!"

"The universe is a vast and mysterious place, and we are all part of it."

"Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private."

"I'm not a philosopher. I'm a poet."

"There's an end to suffering when you understand the openness of things. And that the way out would be to have a right view of it, (that is an understanding of the whole situation, the whole transitory…"