1. “I want people to bow as thy see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.”
2. “The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse.”
3. “Poetry’s role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.”
4. “Scientist alone is true poet.”
5. “First thoughts are the strongest.”
6. “It isn’t enough for your heart to break because everybody’s heart is broken now.”
7. “The world knows the love that’s in its breasts as in the flower, the suffering lonely world.”
8. “There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.”
9. “The best thing about being famous is that it makes it easier to get laid.”
10. “Others can measure their visions by what we see.”
11. “We are all exposed to the flash bulb of death.”
12. “We’re all golden sunflowers inside.”
13. “If you want to make order, put your own heart in order, and, having put one’s heart in order, one can regulate the family order.”
14. “Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.”
15. “The censors of language is the censorship of consciousness.”
16. “I want to be a saint, a real saint while I am young, for there is so much work to do.”
17. “First thought, best thought.”
18. “It’s never to late to do nothing at all.”
19. “The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstasy is holy!”
20. “Mind is shapely, Art is shapely.”
21. “There is nothing to be learned from history anymore We’re in science fiction now.”
22. “Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind.”
23. “Follow your inner moonlight don’t hide the madness.”
24. “A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.”
25. “None of us understand what we’re doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.”
26. “You can’t photograph everything.”
27. “I have no other possessions of value but my soul.”
28. “When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain.”
29. “I don’t do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.”
30. “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.”
