Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.

The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.

Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.

Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away

Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.