I was losing interest in politics when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

If you are going to sin sin against God not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

Hell I never vote for anybody I always vote against.

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

So poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.

This proves that great lyric poetry can die be reborn die again but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point life itself takes over again.