The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves...

Do not think me gentle because I speak in praise of gentleness, or elegant because I honor the grace that keeps this world. I am a man crude as any, gross of s…

So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who d…

Small creatures die because larger creatures are hungry. How superior to this human confusion of greed and creed, blood and fire.

I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I should be deported.

What the artist wishes to do - as far as you are concerned - is to take you out of yourself. As far as he is concerned, he wishes to express himself.

I have no desire to prove anything by it. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance.