What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.