"The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy! The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and hand and anus holy!"

"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…"

"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."

"Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?"

"I'm a homosexual, which means I love men. And I'm a poet, which means I love words."