The poet: just another sleepwalker dreaming he's awake.

Poets, like their poems, hate to be taken literally.

Faith in the goodness of life is the poet's faith.

A poet is someone who never forgets they were born naked.

A poet is someone who never forgets that they were born naked.

The world will not be saved by poets or poetry.

Poetry always speaks to the unique universal in each person.

A good poem is true the way a scientific fact is true.

A simple thing like being friendly to people will create more understanding than all the poetry in the world.