“Marriage is situational but love is accidental.”

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

“Writing poetry is like having sex with the universe and the language is just a condom.”

“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.”

“He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.”

“Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.”

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.''In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy.' 'All ...”

“He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one.”

“I act as the tongue of you,... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.”

“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of em...”