“History says, Dont hopeOn this side of the grave,But then, once in a lifetimeThe longed-for tidal waveOf justice can rise up,And hope and history rhyme”

“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”

“All I know is a door into the dark”

“I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.”

“I rhymeTo see myself, to set the darkness echoing.”

“There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you. ”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”