“What is obscenity? And to whom?”

“I learned a world from each / one whom I loved”

“What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!--and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?”

“What Patriot wrote that shit?”

“What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?”

“What came is gone forever every time”

“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.”