"Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life."

"I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it."

"The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter."

"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."

"I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form."