Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

ô enfance du coeur humain qui ne vieillit jamais! voilà donc à quel degré de puérilité notre superbe raison peut descendre! Et encore est-il vrai que bien des hommes attachent leur destinée à des choses d'aussi peu de valeur que mes feuilles de saule.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

People have wanted to look inside the human mind, the human brain, for thousands of years.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.