All Quotes

I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world. ”

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge. ”

I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet. ”

I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics. ”

My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time. ”

You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings. ”

Oh no, the dead have risen and they're voting Republican. ”

Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. ”

A man who envies our family is a man who needs help. ”

I would like to try harder to establish my thought and philosophy strongly and to go back to the universe with my love. ”