Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.