Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking

How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn-t pull the trigger-

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

the way to create art is to burn and destroy, ordinary concepts and to substitute them, with new truths that run down from the top of the head, and out of the heart

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.