“Invention has ever imagination and poetry at its heart.”

“The heart is a repository of emotions--real, imagined, and invented, owned and borrowed, past, present, future--and there in your chest, operating at an average of 80 beats per minute at rest, is a heart that has stories to tell.”

“As it turns out, craft is to poetry what invention is to imagination--not antithetical, but needless. The eye does not invent the light; there's no need. The mind makes no materials; it doesn't have to. Imagination is the present state of things, and poems rejoice--in particular, in detail--that this is so. Again, the only work is trust, a trust rewarded by ease and by betterment.”

“Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.”

“If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.”

“Everything has its poetry. 94”