Quotes About Freedom

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free verse served me best when I embarked on poetry.

What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves!

I've got feathers in my hair, I get down to beat poetry.

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

Open wide the mind's cage-door, She'll dart forth, and cloudward soar.

why be bothered with other people's set-ups? it only leads to torture.

If I stay close to the sea, I will go on well.

If my life were a fragrance, it would smell like the sea.

It could have been so beautiful.The way I learned and got free and swore to never love another person ever againand it could have been so beautiful, the way I actually did.

Saturated Arrogance...imprisoned musescried to be freeshe took away their quillsand saiddo not bother me...

No one's serious at seventeen, When lindens line the promenades

Learn to use your third eye and you'll be able to see beyond the sky. There is no limit, except that which you impose upon yourself.

I'm a wanderessI'm a one night standDon't belong to no cityDon't belong to no man(Note: These lyrics were inspired by Roman Payne's quote from his novel "The Wanderess".)

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Poets and painters are outside the class system or rather they constitute a special class of their own like the circus people and the gypsies.

My parents were willing to let me follow my nose, do what I wanted to do, and they supported my interest by buying the books that I wanted for birthdays and Christmas, almost always poetry books.

Don't be 'practical' in politics. To be practical in that sense means that you have schooled yourself to think along the lines, and in the grooves that those who rob you would desire you to think.

That's the one issue can't discuss.You can discuss abortion back and forth, discuss gun control back and forth. But you can't have a dissenting opinion in America (politics) on Israel.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals; it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.