"Actually one has to think of them, too. How can their problem be solved?—because they're hooked to the drugs, their whole existence depends on drugs. If the drug problem didn't exist, if the whole pro…"

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

"I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark; so long my sleep, I have become another child. I wake to see the world go wild."

"You were never no locomotive, Sunflower, you were a sunflower!"

"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."