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

"The only decent politicians are dead politicians."

"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…"

"I am a mirror, and I am a reflection, and I am a shadow, and I am a light, and I am a sound, and I am a silence."

"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."