"Poetry is the record of individual insights into the secret soul of the individual and because all individuals are one in the eyes of their creator, into the soul of the world. The world has a soul."

"I'm a great believer in the power of the word."

"The future is a drag."

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix."

"Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?"