No One Needs To Teach You To

[to Write Poems] I Think It's Important To Do Research, And Research Mostly Is Going To Come From Books, So All Of Your Reading Is Potentially Helpful To Your Poetry.

We Just Didn't Put Any Pressure On Each Other, And I Think That Everybody Needs Somebody, And I Didn't Do It To Try To Do It; It's What We [with Nina Simone] Were To Each Other.

My Work Is A Part Of Me And I Know It. I Have No Reason To Try To Pick One Part Of Me Out From The Rest. I Only See My Work, Or Rather I Should Say I See My Work Only Telling My Part Of The Human Experience.

Poems Don't Have To Rhyme... Poems Are About Beauty And Emotion; In Other Words Poems Are About Feelings.

America May Not Be The Best Nation On Earth, But It Has Conceived Loftier Ideals And Dreamed Higher Dreams Than Any Other Nation. America Is A Heterogeneous Nation Of Many Different People Of Different Races, Religions, And Creeds. Should This Experiment Go Forth And Prosper, We Will Have Offered Humans A New Way To Look At Life; Should It Fail, We Will Simply Go The Way Of All Failed Civilizations.