"If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable"

"If you cannot be a poet, be the poem"

"Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages"

"Some books leave us free and some books make us free"

"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears"

"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance"

"Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free"

"I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza"

"The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion"

"There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free"

"Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind"