At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun.

My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there I know there will be people who will listen.

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.

I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play it has a poignancy to it.

The romanticised life where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it and every time you read it depending on your conditions you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel once you have read it you have grasped it.

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from and it gets isolated by crisis and those crises are often very intimate also.

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.

There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things which ponders listens penetrates where the earlier less developed consciousness passed lightly by is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom on the stairs everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

In the language of poetry where every word is weighed nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all not a single existence not anyone's existence in this world.

You know in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art my poetry as fuel for them to torture other people.

I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper.

Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time but it is poetry in the memory.

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

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.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere but putting it on paper is alas not so easy as looking at it.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

In Hawaii we have something called Ho'oponopono where people come together to resolve crises and restore peace and balance.

I wish the Peace Corps and its volunteers continued success and perseverance. We are grateful for their contributions to society and dedication to providing assistance where it is needed. May the Peace Corps continue its legacy of service both at home and abroad.