“To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history”
“A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover”
“[Wine is] poetry in a bottle.”
“The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.”
“When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.”
“Don't be afraid of poetry.”
“Reading to small children is a specialty.”