“Platypus? I thought it was pronounced platymapus. Has it always been pronounced platypus?”
“Among the mighty store of wonderful chains that are for ever forging, day and night, in the cast iron-works of time and circumstance, there was one chain forged in the moment of that small conclusion, riveted to the foundations of heaven and earth, and gifted with invincible force to hold and drag.”
“poems are small moments of enlightenment”
“An odd phrase, "by heart," he would add, as though poems were stored in the bloodstream.”
“This poem is endless, the odds against us are endless,our chances of being alive togetherstatistically nonexistent;”