“Marriage is situational but love is accidental.”

“A poet is born in the present, lives in the past and thinks in the future.”

“Poetry is the habit of making a drop of light in the darkness.”

“Poetry lit fire in the vast forest of memories within you.”

“What is poetry? Only the poetry can answer this!”

“Being poet is my choiceless choice.”

“Speaking of which, about assuming you had a condomI just meant that you, with your experience, would be prepared for responsible sex, even if it were on the fly. An intelligent man is prepared for ...”

“Culture is a fibreglass condom suit - highly restrictive, uncomfortable and itchy as hell.”

“The difference between a retiring man and a used condom is that the condom isnt given a golden watch to inspire the illusion that it still matters to whomever that has just used it.”

“We are looking for a tongue that speaks with reverence for life, searching for an ecology of mind. Without it, we have no home, no place of our own within the creation. It is not only the vocabular...”

“But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.”

“Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe wh...”

“Im not a woman you bring home to Mother, pick out china patterns with, or Mary forefend, breed. Ive seen a chunk of the universe, true, but theres still so much more to see. I doubt Ill ever cure t...”

“My hope, my heaven, my trust must be,My gentle guide, in following thee.”

“Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmonious...”