The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

Sand. Everywhere. In the bed, in the shower, all over the floor. Grrrrr.

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

life is long between the desire and the spasm.