Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

A virgin a whole virgin is judged made and so between curves and outlines and real seasons and more out glasses and a perfectly unprecedented arrangement between old ladies and mild colds there is no satin wood shining.

Romance is everything.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

"Native" always means people who belong someplace else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the white race does not really think they belong anywhere, because they think of everybody else as native.

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.