I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.
Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.
And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.
We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.
Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.
The most stupid religion is Islam.
I'm religiously opposed to religion.
To perceive is to suffer.
Patriotism is the religion of hell.
My mind is not so advanced
What I stand for is what I stand on.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Virtue alone has majesty in death.
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
Power is not a means; it is an end.
