Ezra Pound - idiosyncrasy on a monument.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

The ways we miss our lives are life.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

We can't tell our life from our wish

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.

Shout-out to my dad - he influenced my style when I was 17.

I have the benefit of experience which tells me that sulking solves nothing

Infidelity, like death, admits of no degrees.

Never open a book with weather. There are exceptions. If you happen to be Barry Lopez, who has more ways to describe ice and snow than an Eskimo, you can do all the weather reporting you want.

Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions.

One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.

Dance music was on its arse before we came along.

Highly effective people tend to be proactive. They decide to find a better job or to have better health, rather than of responding to whatever curves life throws at them.

People don't need wings to survive" "Mockingjays do.