"I'm a poet, for Chrissake. I'm not a politician."

"There's an end to suffering when you understand the openness of things. And that the way out would be to have a right view of it, (that is an understanding of the whole situation, the whole transitory…"

"I do not wish to escape to myself, I wish to escape from myself. I wish to obliterate my consciousness and my knowledge of independent existence, my guilts, my secretiveness."

"The only way to live is to love."

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