Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

The function of art is to make us see things, not to make us agree with the artist.

To be aware of the idea of social structure and to use it with sensibility is to be capable of tracing such linkages among a great variety of milieux.

I'm not perfect, I don't claim to be, but I'm trying.