Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don't believe that, try using the two methods to get laid.
Mark ForsythThe problem with the alphabet is that it bears no relation to anything at all, and when words are arranged alphabetically they are uselessly separated. In the OED, for example, aardvarks are 19 volumes away from the zoo, yachts are 18 volumes from the beach, and wine is 17 volumes from the nearest corkscrew.
Mark ForsythA poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his thoughts, however commonplace they may be, exquisitely. That is the one and only difference between the poet and everybody else.
Mark ForsythAnyone who has ever taken out a mortgage will be unsurprised to learn that it is, literally, a /death pledge/.
Mark Forsyth