“[Wine is] poetry in a bottle.”

“A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover”

“Don't be afraid of poetry.”

“To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history”

“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.”

“Reading to small children is a specialty.”