Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.

Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.

Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.