I didn't choose poetry: poetry chose me.
Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself.
A good poem about failure is a success.
The chromatic scale is what you use to give the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously.
As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.
Life is first boredom, then fear.