"To be a poet is a condition,..." - Quote by Robert Frost

“Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.”

“You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.”

“We ran as if to meet the moon.”

“The freedom of poetic license.”

“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”

“A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.”

“Black and brown pride have been taught in my household for a long time.”

“If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play”

“At present our only true names are nicknames.”