What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.

We are not alone in our loneliness, others have been here and known griefs we thought our special own.

There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.

God cannot catch us. Unless we stay in the unconscious room. Of our hearts.

A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.

Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published.

It often occurs to me that we love most what makes us miserable. In my opinion the damned are damned because they enjoy being damned.

I dabbled in verse and it became my life

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

But don’t we all deserve a chance before we’re judged?

Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and in general more sensible... then may the Devil take you!

I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other; and that fortune provides readers as she does mates for ugly women.

The music becomes more pure and soulful when it's true, and it has to be true these days with the way the internet works, and the way the game works, everyone wants authentic raps.

Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti.

If a pagan asks you to show him your faith, take him into church and place him before the icons.

If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!

Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity.

French elegance lies in the balance of romance and restraint.

No nation has ever benefited from a prolonged war.