It all boils down to what I would most like to do as a musician. Put songs on people's lips instead of just in their ears. - Pete Seeger

I'd really rather put songs on people's lips than in their ears.

Education is what you get when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

The stream of the mountains pleases me more than the sea.

The nice thing about poetry is that you’re always stretching the definitions of words. Lawyers and scientists and scholars of one sort or another try to restrict the definitions, hoping that they can prevent people from fooling each other. But that doesn’t stop people from lying.

Cezanne painted a red barn by painting it ten shades of color: purple to yellow. And he got a red barn. Similarly, a poet will describe things many different ways, circling around it, to get to the truth.

My father also had a nice little simile. He said, “The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. And you can’t lay your hand on it. All you do is circle around and point, and say, ‘It’s in there somewhere.