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

"I'm a truth-seeker, but I'm not a conspiracy theorist."

"I didn't foresee what you felt—what more hideous gape of bad mouth came first—to you—and were you prepared? To go where? In that Dark—that—in that God? a radiance? A Lord in the Void? Like an eye in t…"

"I want to be a saint, a madman, a criminal, a prophet, a god, a monster, a genius, an ordinary man, a holy man, a sexual maniac, a mystic, a poet, a lover, a father, a son, a brother, a friend, a neig…"

"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."