Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.
Wine is poetry in a bottle.
Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being.
Reading to small children is a specialty.
The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor.
The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.