For a lot of people, poetry tends to be dull. It's not read much. It takes a special kind of training and a lot of practice to read poetry with pleasure. It's like learning to like asparagus.

Gene Wolfe has produced a work of art that can satisfy adult appetites and in which even the most fantastical elements register as poetry rather than as penny-whistle whimsy.

Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements of basketball players confined to wheelchairs.

Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.

Creativeness is finding patterns where none exist.

All children... feel a demonic sympathy with those things that cause disorder in the grown-up world.

Sometimes the whole world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful