"Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science."

"Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities."

"Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation."

"Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine."

"It is a essential truth that beauty in art is the harmony of spirit, intellect, and craft."

"The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English."

"It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music."

"I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders."