"I'm a human being, and I'm a poet, and I'm a lover, and I'm a friend, and I'm a neighbor, and I'm a citizen, and I'm a creature of the earth."

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked."

"A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years."

"I had a moment of clarity, saw the feeling in the heart of things, walked out to the garden crying."

"First thought, best thought."