"One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime"

"It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are"

"The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace"

"Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge"

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

"Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities"

"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still"

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time"

"I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that"

"And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship"

"I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation"