…poetry is a subversive raid upon the forgotten language of the collective unconscious.
The poet pickpocket of reality.
Poetry is the shadow of a plane fleeing over the ground like a cross escaping a church.
The war against the imagination is not the only war. Using the 9/11 Twin Towers disaster as an excuse, America has initiated the Third World War, which is the War against the Third World.
When poets are treated like dogs, they howl.
The poet by definition is the bearer of Eros and love and freedom and thus the natural-born non-violent enemy of the state.
The poet a subversive barbarian at the city gates, non-violently challenging the toxic status quo.
Poetry is the last lighthouse in the rising sea.
-Ferlinghetti: Poetry as Insurgent Art