The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself ... Poetry is therefore primarily a commemorative act.

We turn from the light to see.

Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.

Imagine your shadow burning off the page / As the dear world and the dead word disengage

Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time.

There's no fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of the wrong sin.

We could easily have evolved eyelids thick enough to keep out the light, but we still need to see the shadows fall across them. We're not yet safe.

After a long period of reflection, he decided that he was in fact right yet again.

Anything that elicits an immediate nod of recognition has only reconfirmed a prejudice.

I worry about anything happening to you ... because I truly love you, every bit of you.

They had buried him under our elm tree, they said -- yet this was not totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

A man is never so vulnerable in a battle as when he flees, " Lord Eddard has told Jon once. "A running man is like a wounded animal to a soldier. It gets his bloodlust up.

Nobody sets out to make a bad record.

I'm a whisper in water.

We must accept human error as inevitable - and design around that fact.

Neither concepts nor mathematical formulae can explain the infinite.

The concept of a 'just' or 'fair' price is devoid of any scientific meaning; it is a disguise for wishes, a striving for a state of affairs different from reality.

When you a 'has-been', just think of where you HAS-BEEN.

Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.