"I'm a learner, but I'm not a follower."

"I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I'm doing now–and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to…"

"The only good thing about America is that you can say anything you want."

"The universe is a dance, and we are all dancers in it."

"The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. By poetry I mean the imagining of what has been lost and what can be found—the imaginin…"