Each servant stamps the reader with a look.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

The ellipse is as aimless as that, Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear In our present. Its flexing is its account, Return to the point of no return.

You stupefied me. We waxed, Carnivores, late and alight In the beaded winter. All was ominous, luminous.

Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.

The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is.

In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat.

SPIKE: I’m a biker, babe. It’s in my blood to get what I want.

During the day, the library is a realm of order.

Some people believe in imaginary friends. I believe in imaginary numbers.

That's how people live in the real world: forcing stuff on each other.

With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.

There are certain things that are obviously problems and should be topics of conversation that aren't.

Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'.

Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.

And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.

He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington