Poets can't worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear.

Once an editor chased after me, red lights, siren, trying to write me a ticket because I made up a word, but poetic license is irrevocable.

Popularity is not an indication of quality.

Poetry and aesthetics are far more enthralling than sex.

There's more truth in comedy than in tragedy.

Infinity is a territory toward which the inherent human impetus of conquest can be productively directed.