We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
“One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.”
“I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.”