my poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off completely..

A child playing with dolls may shed heartfelt tears when his bundle of rags and scraps becomes deathly ill and dies ... So we may come to an understa….

Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through….

I want to get rid of the Indian problem. [...] Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not been absorbed i….

Accidental stacks considered harmful..

Celebrity is very weird..

Poetry is the breath of beauty..

I am, therefore there is a God..

I don't have anything to hide..

I bleed like nobody else..

I've always loved to sing..

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason..

The physical part has a lot to do with the mental part..

Success feeds confidence..

I don't act to live. I live to act..

The only rule is there are no rules..

After that, work and hope. But never hope more than you work.

There is nothing you cannot do..

There are no slow retroviruses, only slow retrovirologists..

The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day..