The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

Time heals all things but one: Time.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne.

I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the snail's secret open seam, its wound, leaking attar.

a. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who raze monuments. d. Publishers: people who sell rubble. e. Readers: people who buy it.

What we think we are surely going to do, we don't do; and what we never intended to do, we may one day notice that we have done, and done, and done.